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| Afghanistan |
| Kandahar jail governor detained after mass breakout |
| 2011-04-29 |
| [Dawn] The governor of the Afghan jail where hundreds of Islamic fascisti this week beat feet through a tunnel built by the Taliban has been jugged along with several top aides, an intelligence source told Rooters on Thursday. General Ghulam Dastgir, who headed the high security Sarposa jail where almost 500 fighters beat feet along a dirt shaft fitted with lights and air pipes, was led away in handcuffs following a preliminary investigation, the source said on condition of anonymity. Also jugged were eight others including Dastgir's deputy governor and several senior prison managers, he said. A front man for Tooryalai Wesa, the governor of southern Kandahar province where the jail was located, confirmed several detentions at the prison, but declined to name anyone. "A number of people were jugged because they neglected their duties," the front man said. Several police from stations located around the prison on the outskirts of Kandahar city had also been dismissed for sleeping when they should have been on patrol as the escape took place under cover of darkness, he said. Afghanistan's government has launched a full investigation into the breakout, the second in three years at the jail, which Karzai's chief front man said had exposed serious holes in the country's security preparedness. In 2008, around 1,000 prisoners including Taliban fighters beat feet after a truck bomb blew open the jail gates. That mass escape quickly led to a surge in fighting. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Kill them all, call it Tough Love. |
| Posted by: Rhodesiafever 2011-04-29 17:37 |