However, given that unlike Russia, America refused to give extensive military aid to the country, the government of Daoud Khan developed warmer ties with the USSR while officially remaining non-aligned.

Daoud abolished the monarchy, abrogated the 1964 constitution, and declared Afghanistan a republic with himself as its first President and Prime Minister.

On 27 April 1978, the PDPA, led by Nur Mohammad Taraki, Babrak Karmal and Amin Taha overthrew the government of Mohammad Daoud, who was assassinated along with all his family members in a bloody military coup.

On April 27, 1978, in the so-called Saur revolution, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ), seized power in a bloody military coup killing Daoud and his family along with many of his supporters.

In his autobiography, From Jerusalem to Munich, first published in France in 1999, and later in a written interview with Sports Illustrated, Abu Daoud wrote that funds for Munich were provided by Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the PLO since 11 November 2004 and President of the Palestinian National Authority since 15 January 2005.

Abu Daoud, who lived with his wife on a pension provided by the Palestinian Authority, has said that “ the Munich operation had the endorsement of Arafat ,” although Arafat was not involved in conceiving or implementing the attack.

In his autobiography, Abu Daoud writes that Arafat saw the team off on the mission with the words “ God protect you .”

Ankie Spitzer, widow of fencing coach Andre, declined several offers to meet with Abu Daoud, saying that the only place she wants to meet him is in a courtroom.

* September 15 – King Hussein of Jordan forms a military government with Muhammad Daoud as the prime minister.

Daoud supported a nationalistic and one-sided reunification of the Pashtun people with Afghanistan, but this would have involved taking a considerable amount of territory from the new nation of Pakistan and was in direct antagonism to an older plan of the 1950s whereby a confederation between the two countries was proposed.

Daoud Khan is assassinated along with his family and supporters.

On April 27, 1978, the Afghan Army, which had been sympathetic to the PDPA cause, overthrew and executed Daoud along with members of his family.

Afghanistan cemented regional problems with Pakistan, after Daoud pressed his hard-line Pashtunistan policies to Pakistan.

According to Baber, Bhutto's operation was an excellent idea and it had hard-hitting impact on Daoud and his government which forced Daoud to increase his desire to make peace with Bhutto.

Abu Daoud, who planned the 1972 Munich massacre, the hostage-taking of members of the Israeli team at the Munich Olympic Games which ended with the murder of eleven Israeli athletes and coaches and a West German policeman, wrote that funds for the operation were provided by Abbas, though without knowing what the money would be used for.

In 1978 the PDPA with help from the Afghan army seized power from Daoud in what is known as the Saur Revolution.

The divided PDPA succeeded the Daoud regime with a new government under the leadership of Nur Muhammad Taraki of the Khalq faction.

* 2nd-Released a videotape of the beheading of an Iraqi named Barie Nafi ' a Daoud Ibrahim, accused of collaboration with the enemy.

In 1994 the party split into two factions: a moderate wing, led by Ali Mohamed Daoud, signed a peace agreement with the government on 26 December 1994 in Aba ' a, while a radical wing, led by Ahmed Dini Ahmed, denounced this agreement and continued armed resistance.

As a result of its December 1994 agreement with the government, the moderate faction was given two ministerial positions on 8 June 1995: FRUD President Daoud became Minister of Health and Social Affairs, while FRUD Secretary-General Ougoure Kifle Ahmed became Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources.

Bokhary's father is Daoud Bokhary, a native of the North-West Frontier Province in Pakistan who came to Hong Kong with the British Indian Army after the Japanese occupation.

FRUD split in 1994, and a moderate faction led by Ali Mohamed Daoud entered negotiations with the government ( signing a peace agreement in December 1994 ), while Ahmed continued to lead a radical faction which vowed to continue to fight.

In April 1978, second-level Fatah leader Mohammad Daoud Oudeh ( Abu Daoud ) organized cells of about 70 to 80 fighters with the intention of breaking the ceasefire.

By 1975, after a failed uprising by the Muslim Youth, President Daoud Khan started to dissociate himself from the Soviet Union and the communist party of Afghanistan.

Daoud was the long standing prime minister, and while he instituted a republic he had Soviet leanings in terms of political allies.

In the later years of his leadership, Daoud began to shift favour from the Soviet Union to Islamic nations, expressing admiration for their wealth from oil and expecting economic aid from them to quickly surpass that of the Soviet Union.

During his five years in power, until the Communist coup of 1978, Daoud relied on Soviet assistance to upgrade the capabilities and increase the size of the Afghan air force, introducing newer-models of Soviet-built MiG-21 fighters and An-24 and An-26 transports.

The Songhai had been the dominant force in Western Africa for more than a century, controlling the Western Sudan from the headwaters of the Senegal River to what is now Niger and Nigeria ; however, a rivalry for succession after the 1583 death of Askia Daoud left the Empire in a weakened state.

( According to bilingual Palestinian journalist Daoud Kuttab, " The English channel uses more neutral terminology ; the Arab channel is much harsher.

When French police arrested Abu Daoud, one of the chief organizers of the Munich massacre, and inquired about extraditing him to Germany, Germany's justice secretary Alfred Seidl recommended that Germany should not take any action, causing the French to release Abu Daoud and the Assad regime to shelter him until he died at a Damascus hospital in 2010.

A number of sources, including Mohammed Oudeh ( Abu Daoud ), one of the masterminds of the Munich massacre, and Benny Morris, a prominent Israeli historian, have stated that Black September was an armed branch of Fatah used for paramilitary operations.

* Abu Daoud ( c. 1936 – 2010 ), one of the leaders the Black September movement

Her father, Daoud Mikhail, was one of the founders of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

This operation was remarkably successful, and by 1977 the Afghan government of Mohammed Daoud Khan was willing to settle all outstanding issues in exchange for a lifting of the ban on the National Awami Party and a commitment towards provincial autonomy for Pashtuns, which was already guaranteed by Pakistan's Constitution, but stripped by the Bhutto government when the One Unit scheme was introduced.

In 1962, Daoud sent troops across the international border into the Bajaur region of Pakistan in an attempt to manipulate events in that area and to press the Pashtunistan issue, but the Afghan military forces were routed by Pakistani military.

The group, in this form anyway, was short-lived ; when the recently-formed government of Sardar Mohammed Daoud cracked down on Islamists in 1974, all of the Muslim Youth leaders fled to Pakistan and the Organization itself ceased to exist.

After the overthrow of Mohammad Zahir Shah by Mohammad Daoud in 1973, Khalis fled to Pakistan and joined Hekmatyar's Islamic Party ( Hezb-e Islami ).

* 1978 – President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.

In 1973, Mohammed Daoud Khan was brought to power in a coup d ' état against the Afghan King and the Republic of Afghanistan was established.

The government of Mohammed Daoud Khan tried to scale back the PDPA's influence dismissing PDPA members from their government posts, appointing conservative elements instead and finally announcing the dissolution of the PDPA arresting senior party members.

On April 27, 1978, the PDPA and military units loyal to the PDPA, killed Daoud Khan, his immediate family and bodyguards in a violent coup, and seized control of the capital Kabul.

Under Karmal's leadership, the Parchamite PDPA participated in Mohammad Daoud Khan's rise to power, and his subsequent regime.

While relations were good at the beginning, Daoud began a major purge of leftist influence in the mid-1970s.

The battle impacted the highest levels of the army leadership, as Daoud Soumain, its Chief of Staff, was killed.

It continued to prosper until a civil war over succession followed the death of Askia Daoud in 1582.

In 1953, he was replaced as Prime Minister by Mohammed Daoud Khan, the king's cousin and brother-in-law.

Amid charges of corruption and malfeasance against the royal family and poor economic conditions created by the severe 1971 – 72 drought, former Prime Minister Mohammad Sardar Daoud Khan seized power in a non-violent coup on July 17, 1973, while Zahir Shah was receiving treatment for eye problems and therapy for lumbago in Italy.

The leaders of PDPA apparently feared that Daoud was planning to exterminate them all, especially since most of them were arrested by the government shortly after.

After much rivalry, Muhammad Ture's last son Askiya Daoud ( 1529 – 1582 ) assumed the throne.

* 2010 – Abu Daoud, Palestinian terrorist, planner of the Munich massacre ( b. 1937 )

* 1973 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.

* 1909 – Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan politician, 1st President of Afghanistan ( d. 1978 )

In July 1973, Zahir Shah was ousted in a nonviolent coup and Kabul became the capital of a republic under Mohammed Daoud Khan, the new President.

Daoud forced many communists out of his government, which unified the various communist factions within the city.