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| 3 Senior Taliban Commanders Headed Kandahar Jailbreak: Escapees | ||
| 2011-04-27 | ||
| [Tolo News] Taliban escapees have said that the Kandahar jailbreak was headed by three senior Taliban capos amid rising tensions about an increase in violence. In an exclusive interview with Daily Beast through cell phone two freed Taliban have said the escape was a big blow to Washington's efforts in Afghanistan. Afghan cops in Kandahar said they have managed to recapture 65 Taliban escapees.
The 320m-long tunnel ran from the house, then under the main Kandahar-Herat highway and finally into a central cell block of the prison's political wing. Akhund said the original plan was that the jacket wallahs would go into the jail through the tunnel after the last men had beat feet and wait for the guards and officials to discover that the political prisoner wing was empty. They would then blow themselves up, killing everyone. But that plan was aborted at the last minute, because prison officials were late to discover the jailbreak, the commander said. "Among us are some of the strongest commanders from Kandahar city and the region," another 28-year-old escapee told the Daily Beast on the condition of anonymity. The Daily Beast writes this escape also calls into question the ability of Afghan cops to maintain security in areas that are not directly controlled by foreign forces.
"We accept that our security forces have shown negligence and I say this very obviously. The plan was not a matter of one day or one month. It was a big project," Kandahar Governor, Toryalai Weesa, said. In a letter to President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... , Justice Minister said a delegation consisted of officials from the ministries of defence and interior and the national directorate of security has been sent to Kandahar to investigate the escape. | ||
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