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Afghanistan
Taliban Bust Outta The Slammer
2003-10-11
More than 40 Taliban militants escaped from a southern Afghanistan prison by digging a 30-foot-long tunnel and with apparent help from officials, regional leaders said Saturday. The 41 escaped convicts — including several Taliban commanders and the brother of former Taliban defense minister, Mullah Ubaidullah — disappeared late Friday from a not so high-security prison in the city of Kandahar, said Yousaf Pashtoon, the governor of Kandahar province.
Well that’s just ducky.
The prisoners were among 54 arrested in recent months during fighting between Afghan government forces and insurgents. Kandahar was the stronghold of Afghanistan’s former hardline Islamic Taliban regime, ousted by a U.S.-led military operation in late 2001.
I guess that means they've get 14 left to look surprised over next week...
’’This is a very serious incident,’’ Pashtoon said, adding that a province-wide search for the prisoners was under way. Two government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said five prison officials were missing. Pashtoon said there was an investigation into the role the five might have played in the escape.
I’d say that was a reasonable course of inquiry.
’’The Taliban dug a 30-foot tunnel and initial investigations indicate that they were working on it for the past month,’’ Pashtoon said.
The Yemeni jails have screen doors, the Phillipine jail doors just lift off their hinges, Saudi jails "catch fire", and the Taliban seem to have been renting "The Great Escape" at the Kandahar Blockbuster. I’m sure glad we are keeping the top leaders under our control at Bagram and Gitmo.
Posted by:Steve & Super Hose

#5  Bad News - Taliban hasescaped.
Good News - Rooms are now open for the guards and prison officials to take up residence.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-10-11 8:04:44 PM  

#4  Any sign of humanity towards these guys on our part is a sign of weakness from their point of view. The western world is in denial of this fact.

-Exactly 100% right. They don't subscribe to western ideals of kindness & charity unless it's to their own kind. They respect brute force and aggression as they understand it. They equate kindness w/weakness. Give them no quarter. If we can't keep them locked up then we need to liquidate them.
Posted by: Jarhead   2003-10-11 4:46:35 PM  

#3  Robert Crawford---Unfortunately you are right. Any sign of humanity towards these guys on our part is a sign of weakness from their point of view. The western world is in denial of this fact. They have declared war to the death on us, and that means Europe, too. The prison officials are playing us for suckers, just like the militias did to us at Tora Bora.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2003-10-11 2:29:27 PM  

#2  ...by digging a 30-foot-long tunnel and with apparent help from officials,

Did they lose the front door keys or something?
Posted by: Raj   2003-10-11 2:27:18 PM  

#1  Control? What kind of control is it when our own servicemen are playing Pony Express for al'Qaeda?

The Blind Sheik who motivated the first WTC attack and the "day of rage" plot that followed was still able to communicate with his loyal ululators from prison -- even with an order to keep him isolated.

The only way to really put an end to the murders these folk want to commit is to kill them.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2003-10-11 2:18:40 PM  

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