Posted on 06/13/2008 2:44:49 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Jail Blast Frees Hundreds Of Taliban
Updated:22:34, Friday June 13, 2008 Hundreds of Taliban militants have escaped from a prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, after a co-ordinated suicide bomb and rocket attack tore through the jail's defences.
Nearly all of an estimated 1,150 prisoners fled when a Taliban suicide bomber blew open the main gate, officials said.
Eyewitnesses reported that the fighters fired several rockets at various parts of the mud-built prison.
"All the prisoners escaped. There is no one left," said Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai and the president of Kandahar's provincial council.
Militants first exploded a water tanker near the entrance to the gate of the prison, then several suicide bombers entered and blew themselves up, he added.
A shopkeeper who sells vegetables near the prison said he saw escaped prisoners run toward pomegranate and grape groves that lie behind it.
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This prison break was planned before the US Supreme Court announced that it was going to reach out and free all terrorists everywhere.
There shouldn’t be anymore need for prison breaks.
Yes...suicide bomber should have just waited for our Supreme Court decision....same damn hting....I HATE LIBERALS...they are gonna get us ALL KILLED!
Wait until they figure out that biochips have been injected into their buttocks and we are secretly tracking them via satellites.
This prison break was planned before the US Supreme Court announced that it was going to reach out and free all terrorists everywhere.
There shouldn’t be anymore need for prison breaks.
Geez, I wish that were true! Should be standard operating procedure with these scumbags.
***Eyewitnesses reported that the fighters fired several rockets at various parts of the mud-built prison.***
There’s one of the problems.
Its time to go back to the mid 20th century custom of immediately hanging guerillas.
How many years of work did this undo?
Good thing it wasn’t done in 1776.
Prison break. Let’s assume that they are armed and dangerous now, and should be shot on site.
Woah... that had to make quite a mess.
Seriously bad news. Well, nuts. You takes yer good days, and you takes yer bad days, I guess.
Now’s probably a good time to get out of afghanistan, stop nationbuilding, and leave this third world pit to rot. IMO.
Perhaps, but I believe you’re overly pessimistic. We’re struggling against the tide of this inhumane idiocy, that’s for sure. But what happenned here indicates how desperate the Taliban is - in other words, they are losing!
What we should do is realize our work in Europe and Japan was completed long ago and it is high time we left. Those socialist nations will never get the notion to finance a proactive military as long as someone else is willing to pay for their defense. They can do without our hovering presence.
Ahmadi, the Taliban spokesman, said militants had been planning the assault for the last two month, "to release our Taliban friends." "Today we succeeded," he said. The escaped prisoners "are safe in town and they are going to their homes."
There was also reports of heavy gunfire in the background, and 5 British paratroopers killed in that area this week.
Oh boy, I WISH .. can I have a hope it’s true?
Agonized PING!
I’m praying it is possible.
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