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Afghanistan
Taliban attack Afghan jail, free 23 colleagues
2010-07-19
Taliban staged a series of raids in western Afghanistan on Sunday, blowing up the gate of a jail and freeing 23 insurgent prisoners, officials said.
I've seen this movie ...
Indeed you have. Farah was the site of the June, 2009 controversial bombing attack that precipitated the change in the ROEs in Afghanistan.
Insurgents attacked four police posts leading to the centre of Farah town early on Sunday, said Mohammad Younus Rasooli, the governor of western Farah province, bordering Iran.

"They kept the police preoccupied and the same time blew up the gate of Farah's jail, which resulted in the escape of 23 prisoners," Rasooli told Reuters over phone.

Four of the inmates were immediately arrested because they had suffered wounds in the escape, he said, adding seven more were captured.
Four plus seven take away twenty-three carry ninety-one... equals not as successful as planned.
A policeman was killed during the incident, which lasted several hours, he said.

A spokesman for the Taliban, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, confirmed that members of the movement were behind the attacks.
The Daily Times reporter has Mr. Yousuf on speed dial. I hear they're second cousins three times over on their mothers' sides... and four times something unnameable in English on their fathers'.
Meanwhile, a suicide bomber killed four civilians in an attack apparently aimed at a convoy of foreign forces in Kabul on Sunday, security sources said. The attack happened opposite a clinic on a road often used by foreign troops, one said, adding that four more civilians were wounded.

There was no immediate word on casualties among the foreign forces, he said. The site of the attack was cordoned off.

A spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said they were aware of the incident, but had no details immediately.
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