480 Taliban Escape from Prison

[USNAviator]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Taliban militants tunneled at least 480 inmates out of the main prison in southern Afghanistan overnight, whisking them through a 1,000-foot-long underground passage they had dug over months, officials and insurgents said Monday.

Officials at Sarposa prison in the city of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban, say they only discovered the breach at about 4 a.m., a half hour after the Taliban said they had gotten all the prisoners out.

The militants began digging the tunnel about five months ago from a house within shooting distance of the prison guard towers. It was not immediately clear whether they lived in the house while they dug. They meticulously plotted the tunnel's course around police checkpoints and major roads, the insurgent group said in a statement.

The diggers finally broke through to the prison cells around 11 p.m. Sunday night, and a handful of inmates who knew of the plan unlocked cells and ushered hundreds of inmates to freedom without a shot being fired.

A man who claimed he helped organize those inside the prison told The Associated Press in a phone call that he and his accomplices obtained copies of the keys for the cells ahead of time from "friends." He did not say who those friends were, but his comments suggested possible collusion by prison guards.

"There were four or five of us who knew that our friends were digging a tunnel from the outside," said Mohammad Abdullah, who said he had been in Sarposa prison for two years after being captured in nearby Zhari district with a stockpile of weapons. "Some of our friends helped us by providing copies of the keys. When the time came at night, we managed to open the doors for friends who were in other rooms."

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Facepalm~

Who TheFugg was running that slammer ?
Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz ???

[FoxtrotOscar]

They most likely are on the way to topple Libya as "Rebels" that the Pub Progressive McCain call's courageous...

Let's send another $25 million as a gesture of good faith...

[USNAviator]

Facepalm~

Who TheFugg was running that slammer ?
Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz ???

I was thinking the same thing Ed. A 1000 ft tunnel and no cave ins, no one heard anything? Amazing and sad

[Carpshooter]

I've always been against letting them watch " Hogan's Heros " !

[USNAviator]

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