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| Afghan officers fired after jailbreak |
| 2011-05-02 |
| [Iran Press TV] Afghan officials have fired 17 top coppers in Kandahar, declaring security alerts a week after a big jailbreak in the southern province. Kandahar's police commander said on Sunday that the measures were aimed at boosting security in the province, a Press TV correspondent reported. Earlier, eight coppers and the head of Kandahar's main prison were nabbed on suspicion of involvement in the Taliban prison break. Last Monday, at least 540 Talibs, including 106 commanders, beat feet from Kandahar central prison. The prisoners had dug a 360-meter-long tunnel under the prison's ground, which took over six months to complete. Following the prison break, Afghanistan's Caped 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... said the escape of all the inmates through the tunnel signaled cooperation and assistance from inside the prison. The Taliban claim that the move was pre-planned and that the Islamic exemplars' vehicles had been waiting for the prisoners at the end of the tunnel, somewhere outside the prison. Afghan officials say both local and foreign forces are to blame for the prison break. They say the US troops, who were present at the prison as the tunnel was taking shape, should have noticed something. The Taliban say they will soon start their spring offensive against military bases, foreign forces and Afghan officials. |
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