KABUL - Seven mid-ranking Taleban prisoners have escaped from AfghanistanÂ’s main high security jail, prison authorities said on Tuesday. | Did a Filipino contractor build this jail? |
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Nine people, five guards and four inmates with suspected links to Al Qaeda and the Taleban died during a stand-off at Pul-e-Charki in December 2004.
Four foreign militants described as dangerous enemy combatants escaped from a heavily fortified jail at Bagram, the main US base in Afghanistan, in July last year. They have not been caught and the Taleban, the hardline regime ousted by US-led forces in late 2001 for sheltering Osama bin Laden, later said they were looking after them. One of those prisoners, Libyan Mohammad Hassan, defied the United States with an Internet-posted video in December.