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| Afghanistan |
| More on the Kabul Korpses... |
| 2002-08-08 |
| The Afghan Government has said that 13 armed men killed in a gun battle with its forces near Kabul were high-ranking al-Qaeda members who had escaped from a prison in Kabul. The clash took place early on Wednesday at an isolated police post at Binizar, which guards a road running a few kilometres south of the city in Bagrami district. The men had apparently sawn through bars on a prison window and fled southwards in the early hours of the morning. The government says that 12 of the gunmen were Pakistani nationals and the thirteenth was from Kyrgyzstan. They obviously had every reason to be in somebody else's country... The fighting began when they were stopped on the roads on the outskirts of the city by soldiers. The gunmen, reportedly armed with semi-automatic rifles, ... They got those at which stage of sawing through the bars?... killed two men and moved into a nearby village, where there was more fighting. Never occurred to them to steal away quietly in the night and hitchhike back to Pakistan and Kyrgyzystan... The Kabul garrison regrouped and launched another attack against the al-Qaeda fighters, a number of whom were armed with hand-grenades. That was the stage after they got the automatic weapons while sawing through the bars... The battle lasted several hours and all 13 men were killed. It was only after further investigation by the government that it was able to confirm that the armed men were in fact al-Qaeda prisoners. So where'd they get the shootin' arns? Where'd they get the boom balls? For that matter, where'd they get the saw? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |