If the Afghans can't keep their prisoners in jail, then the terrorist have won.
To call 480 inmates escaping a massive security breach is still understating the the issue. Early Monday morning, prison officials found that the inmates - nearly all of them Taliban militants, were missing from their cells. It was then they discovered the tunnel through which they made their getaway.
Boastfully, the Taliban said the prison break was five months in the making, with diggers starting the tunnel from under a nearby house while they arranged for inmates to get keys so that they could open their cells on the night of the escape. Clearly the work of insiders!
Intelligence reports had been given to prison officials a number of times that the Taliban were planning some sort of operation involving the prison. The prison break also came less than two weeks after the Kandahar police chief was killed by a suicide bomber inside his heavily defended office compound.
Provincial officials said troops have already caught 71 of those who escaped and killed two who tried to resist. Good luck getting the other 307!
To call 480 inmates escaping a massive security breach is still understating the the issue. Early Monday morning, prison officials found that the inmates - nearly all of them Taliban militants, were missing from their cells. It was then they discovered the tunnel through which they made their getaway.
Boastfully, the Taliban said the prison break was five months in the making, with diggers starting the tunnel from under a nearby house while they arranged for inmates to get keys so that they could open their cells on the night of the escape. Clearly the work of insiders!
Intelligence reports had been given to prison officials a number of times that the Taliban were planning some sort of operation involving the prison. The prison break also came less than two weeks after the Kandahar police chief was killed by a suicide bomber inside his heavily defended office compound.
Provincial officials said troops have already caught 71 of those who escaped and killed two who tried to resist. Good luck getting the other 307!
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