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| 470 inmates escape Kandahar jug |
| 2011-04-25 |
| More than 470 inmates at an Afghan jail have escaped through a tunnel hundreds of metres long. Officials at the jail in Kandahar city said the tunnel had been dug from the outside and many of those who escaped were Taliban insurgents. The Kandahar provincial governor's office said some escapees had since been recaptured but gave no details. A spokesman for the Taliban said it had dug the 320m (1,050ft) tunnel and that it had taken five months to construct. Zabiullah Mujahid said about 100 of those who escaped were Taliban commanders, and most of the others were fighters with the insurgency. "A tunnel hundreds of metres long was dug from the south of the prison into the prison and 476 political prisoners escaped last night," said prison director General Ghulam Dastageer Mayar. The jailbreak is the second major escape from the prison in three years. In June 2008, a suicide bomber blew open the Kandahar prison gates and destroyed a nearby checkpoint, freeing about 900 prisoners, many of them suspected insurgents. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #7 the tunnel had been dug from the outside Tunneled in, not tunneled out. But somehow those on the inside had gotten copies to all the keys to their comrades' cells in the meantime. Electronic tags, fingerprints, DNA on file -- possible if it's a DoD prison, but the Afghans are still working at the kind of basic level that allows for tunnelling up through the floor. I can't imagine that a modern American prison would be so poorly constructed, even in a far-off land. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-04-25 11:12 |
| #6 Another reason to implant RFID tags in the bodies of all the WoT perps captured at a minimum. GPS transponders would be a good idea too! If one can do implantable electronic body art - like this Phillips design one could do an implantable solar cell to power an implantable GPS. |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-04-25 10:53 |
| #5 Now you know what the Gazan Gophers have been doing since the change of power in Egypt - contracting to the Afghan Taliban. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-04-25 10:11 |
| #4 Hundreds of meters? Forget inventories of the picks and shovels, how 'bout an inventory of the Bobcats and other earth movers? |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-04-25 09:59 |
| #3 Headcount come up a bit short last evening at the DFAC General Ghulam Dastageer Mayar? Please be sure to inventory the pick and shovel locker. Those damn tools are expensive, even though they are made in China. Nicely done you murdering bastids. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-04-25 07:50 |
| #2 They just wanted to swim the river---to taste some peaches, Besoeker. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-04-25 07:36 |
| #1 ISAF was reported to have learned about the event via a Taliban new release. How thoughtful of the host nation to keep us informed on events taking place in "The Good War." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-04-25 07:33 |