Posted on 07/14/2005 7:10:02 PM PDT by Wiz
KABUL (Reuters) - Four Arab al Qaeda militants who escaped from a heavily fortified U.S. detention center in Afghanistan this week reached a Taliban guerrilla haven safely on Thursday, a spokesman for the rebel movement said.
"The Taliban found and recovered four al-Qaeda mujahideen (holy warriors) this morning," Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi said from an undisclosed location.
Hakimi, whose information has often proved unreliable in the past, declined to say where the escapees were, but added: "They are far away from Kabul. They are safe and now taking rest."
The U.S. military said it was pressing on with an "aggressive" hunt for the four men who broke out of the detention center at Bagram Air Base 50 km (30 miles) north of Kabul on Monday, and declined to comment on the Taliban claim.
"The only comment I have is that the search is ongoing and we are investigating the circumstances of how they were able to escape," Lieutenant-Colonel Jerry O'Hara said.
The escape was the first known from the Bagram base and a major embarrassment for the U.S. military, which has refused to identify the escapees except as "dangerous enemy combatants."
But Afghan officials named the men as Syrian Abdullah Hashimi, Kuwaiti Mahmoud Ahmad Mohammad, Saudi Mahmoud Alfatahni and Libyan Mohammad Hassan.
The U.S. military provided Afghan security forces with photographs of the escapees, which showed bearded men in orange prison uniforms whose ages appeared to range from 20 to 40.
A U.S. spokesman said on Wednesday it appeared the men had changed into less distinctive clothes to make their escape.
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BFD.
They'll be dead escapees within the next year.
I still think we should put out a rumor that we implant tracking devices in the skulls of our prisoners.
Two words, digital angel.
Probably the same burqa-wearing jugheads that claimed they had the missing Navy SEAL as a hostage about the same time we located his body.
Hope the little locator beacons under their skin are still transmitting, so the satellites can get the coordinates of the "Taliban Haven"...... Think of it as "Lo-Jack" writ large....
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I guess they were HEALTHY enough to escape. Thanks to the LIBS we cant treat the filth like they should be treated.
Sure theyre safe, Hakimi. Just like the SEAL you captured, tortured and beheaded - NOT! Once a liar, always a liar...
Something about those little barbed chips that are lodged in their intestinal tracts. What do you suppose could home in on them? How about a little "cruise" something or another. Not everything like this happens by accident. BOOM
Then, by all means, use him as a primary source.
To MSM that is a prime primary source
That's what everyone said about Bin Laden and he's still breathing. Until someone has the backbone to say to Pakistan "We're going in with or without your blessing" these murderers will go free to kill some more.
Looks like all of them are Afghani patriots, Eh?
We might be tracking this guy seeing where he goes.
These guys were soldiers and expendable.They'll get promoted and sent back to the field to be killed.
We can only hope - For there is more than meets the eye going on here I suspect -
I wouldn't underwrite their life insurance.
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