Hundreds escape by tunnel from Kandahar prison

[AnGaaR]

Hundreds escape by tunnel from Kandahar prison





More than 470 inmates at an Afghan jail have escaped through a tunnel hundreds of metres long.
Officials at the jail in Kandahar city said the tunnel had been dug from the outside and many of those who escaped were Taliban insurgents.
The Kandahar provincial governor's office said some escapees had since been recaptured but gave no details.
A spokesman for the Taliban said it had dug the 320m (1,050ft) tunnel and that it had taken five months to construct.
Zabiullah Mujahid said about 100 of those who escaped were Taliban commanders, and most of the others were fighters with the insurgency.
The jailbreak is the second major escape from the prison in three years.
In June 2008, a suicide bomber blew open the Kandahar prison gates and destroyed a nearby checkpoint, freeing about 900 prisoners, many of them suspected insurgents.
The prison holds about 1,200 inmates.
"A tunnel hundreds of metres long was dug from the south of the prison into the prison and 476 political prisoners escaped last night," said prison director General Ghulam Dastageer Mayar.
The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said it was ready to provide assistance if requested by Afghan officials

[faye]

talk about afghan/pashtun persistence lol. that is the first story of a jailbreak that i have heard where the tunnel was built from outside. clever.

[khushal]

talk about afghan/pashtun persistence lol. that is the first story of a jailbreak that i have heard where the tunnel was built from outside. clever.

ya, it sounded like they were trying to break in to prison.

[ghundal]

May Allah(swt) free more Afghans.

[faye]

yeah, bang..bang,,let me in

[akbarkhan]

Sounds like stuff out of Pinewood studios, Taliban 007.

[IamDZJ]

May Allah(swt) free more Afghans.

hi
did you read the title of thread?? in case you missed it, a bunch of criminals escaped from prison.

[Nokia_Apridy]

May Allah(swt) free more Afghans.

Omeen Rora ALLAH da waki chay

Zalimanu Lasuna Pray ke awo Nur Afghanan Rorna da

Khawray Mayanan Awo da Khawray da Para Janguna wakey ...

[Fahd]

the real prison break )))))))
i think we gona watch season 5 again michael scofield

[Nokia_Apridy]

Fahdu ma hem da soch kwaloo..........khu season 7 ta ba hem rasey gora :P)...

ALLAH da tolo Afghanano Mrasta waki....

[Manzareh]

shame on karzai and his foreigner-run government..and it will keep happening.

[Admin Khan]

These were political prisoners.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13184920

Watch the video in the link.

[Gulbabo]

i find it surprising that the whole tunnel is dug and no one found out...

it looks like they were all working together on this..hmm

[IamDZJ]

Ds

i find it surprising that the whole tunnel is dug and no one found out...

it looks like they were all working together on this..hmm

Typical bollywood movie prison cell secnario. Whoever said nothing can be learned from watching those pointless plots....

[ghundal]

Taliban Helps 500 Prisoners Break Out of Afghanistan Jail

Taliban Helps 500 Prisoners Break Out of Afghanistan Jail

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-25/taliban-helps-500-prisoners-break-out-of-afghanistan-jail-1-.html

By Eltaf Najafizada and James Rupert - Apr 25, 2011 4:39 AM ET Mon Apr 25 08:39:37 GMT 2011

• inShar

Taliban guerrillas tunneled into the main jail in Kandahar, the southern Afghan city at the center of their fight with U.S. forces, releasing about 500 prisoners including insurgent commanders.
The militants dug a 360-meter (394-yard) tunnel from a safe house into the prison before evacuating 541 jailed fighters last night, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a phone interview. Kandahar prison director Ghulam Dastir Mayar said by phone that about 470 men escaped, “including those higher- ranking Taliban officials” who were in custody.
About 115 of the men who escaped were commanders or mid- level officials of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan’s southern provinces, notably Kandahar, Uruzgan and Helmand, Mujahid said, a number not confirmed by Mayar.
Since the Obama administration sent 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan last year, U.S.-led forces have sought to cripple the Taliban through raids that have killed “hundreds of low- and mid-level commanders,” according to an April 11 report by Bill Roggio, a U.S. analyst who runs the Long War Journal website that monitors the conflict.
U.S. officials have cited the elimination of such commanders as a key victory that has disrupted and demoralized rebel fighters.
‘Hard-Won Progress’

The intensified battle in the south contributed to a 15- percent increase in civilian deaths, which reached 2,777 during 2010, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan says. In the first three months of this year, deaths among U.S.-led coalition forces fell to 108 from 135 in the same period a year ago, according to the monitoring group iCasualties.org.
“The Taliban dug the tunnel about five or six meters deep into the earth, from the west of the jail,” passing under the area’s main road, Mujahid said. “The operation to free the jihad fighters began in the middle of the night and lasted until early morning.”
In a Jan. 25 letter to U.S. troops, the top American commander in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, credited “hard-won progress” in Kandahar and Helmand to focused special-operations raids that “inflicted enormous losses on mid-level Taliban” leaders.
To contact the reporter on this story: Eltaf Najafizada in Kabul at enajafizada1@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Peter Hirschberg in Hong Kong at phirschberg@bloomberg.net