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Jail Blast Frees Hundreds Of Taliban [estimated 1,150 prisoners fled when a Taliban suicide bomber]
Sky News ^

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; enemycombatants; jailbreak; kandahar; mohammedanism; taliban; troll
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To: STARWISE

Odd???!!!! Nothing on any of my official FRWN sources on this.


21 posted on 06/13/2008 5:17:39 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Sub-Driver

“All the prisoners escaped. There is no one left,”

***Doesn’t smell right. There would be some dead, some wounded prisoners, guards blocking their way, that kind of thing.


22 posted on 06/13/2008 5:51:47 PM PDT by Kevmo (SURFRINAGWIASS : Shut Up RINOs. Free Republic is not a GOP Website. It's a SOCON Site.)
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To: Sub-Driver
As the rats scatter, they get watchful eye-in-the-sky following their every move....

They unwittingly lead us back to their nest where they can be receive a care package from the USAF.


23 posted on 06/13/2008 6:28:23 PM PDT by RasterMaster (Rudy McRomneyson = KENNEDY wing of the Republican Party)
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To: Kevmo

“....guards blocking their way, that kind of thing.”

Apparently the guards had gotten complacent and concentrated in a guard-house near the front gate. Most, if not all, of the prison guards were killed by the truck bomb. I’m sure any survivors were quickly finished off.


24 posted on 06/13/2008 6:51:39 PM PDT by neutronsgalore (Nature, getting rid of Muslims one tsunami at a time.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Further proof that it is insanity to entrust Muslim prisoners to Muslim prison keepers....in any war involving Muslims against "Crusaders"...

Further proof that it should be exceeding difficult to achieve “prisoner status” on a battlefield involving Jihadists who surrender KNOWING their brothers will eventually forgive and release them...

Captured prisoners should be interrogated to determine innocence or guilt — execute the guilty and release the innocent..

25 posted on 06/13/2008 7:21:54 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: usmcobra

Nano-RFID

You are what you eat. ;-)


26 posted on 06/13/2008 8:03:08 PM PDT by LomanBill (A bird flies because the right wing opposes the left.)
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To: neutronsgalore

I waited to hear NBC Brian Williams who was reporting from Afganistan say something about this. I heard nothing. It was all about Tim Russert.


27 posted on 06/13/2008 8:06:55 PM PDT by Spunky (You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences)
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To: Spunky

“It was all about Tim Russert.”

Yeah, I can understand being a big name and all....but I would think they’d put a little bit more air time on 1500 scum who will now be coming back to kill us. I say any that are re-captured should be executed solely for their escape, whether they were supposed to be there or not.


28 posted on 06/13/2008 9:24:44 PM PDT by neutronsgalore (Nature, getting rid of Muslims one tsunami at a time.)
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To: Sub-Driver
More from NY Times.
29 posted on 06/13/2008 9:50:09 PM PDT by F-117A (Mr. Bush, Condi, have someone read UN Resolution 1244 to you!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

That does it. Take no prisoners.


30 posted on 06/13/2008 10:32:15 PM PDT by Neoncon (I am disrespectful to Socialism! Can you see I am serious?)
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To: All

Good times..and..Good hunting in the weeks and few months to come.......It is easier to spin the truth than to hide al ie.....


31 posted on 06/14/2008 7:25:53 AM PDT by SevenMinusOne
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To: Sub-Driver

Our new stance on prisoners should be

Infiltrate
Interrogate
Eradicate

NEXT


32 posted on 06/14/2008 8:13:33 AM PDT by Munz
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To: omega4179

Part of the problem is that some folks today can’t tell the difference between our founding fathers and the taliban. Those folks are called liberals, and they’ll get us all killed if we let them. The same folks who support the taliban while condemning the heroes of 1776, support murdering babies, the sick, the injured, and the elderly under the guise of “right to choose” and “right to die.” Make no mistake, they want us all dead, and they don’t much care how they do it.


33 posted on 06/14/2008 8:18:58 AM PDT by BykrBayb (www.lifeforlauren.org Þ)
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To: RasterMaster
Hey Ahmad, look over your shoulder!


34 posted on 06/14/2008 9:55:10 AM PDT by Thunder90
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To: Munz
"Our new stance on prisoners should be Infiltrate Interrogate Eradicate NEXT"

Heh..good plan.

You surely won't find them at GITMO anymore ;-)

35 posted on 06/14/2008 10:32:24 AM PDT by evad (.I.)
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To: samtheman
NO
GitMO
FO
YO
36 posted on 06/14/2008 10:33:08 AM PDT by evad (.I.)
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To: samtheman

This was yesterday too....DAMMIT! Well, you’re right, no need for prison breaks anymore. Now they can just use US taxpayer dollars to appeal, and appeal, and appeal and appeal...until they blow up the court houses.


37 posted on 06/14/2008 11:04:15 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Terrorist organizations worldwide endorse Obama.)
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To: river rat
"Further proof that it is insanity to entrust Muslim prisoners to Muslim prison keepers....in any war involving Muslims against 'Crusaders'..."

The dead guards were Christians?

38 posted on 06/14/2008 11:07:04 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Terrorist organizations worldwide endorse Obama.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Another good arguement for not taking prisoners. For any of you dip shits that want to argue about the enemy doing the same to our soldiers and Marines taken prisoner show me one American soldier captured by the taliban or Al Queda that has been teturned unharmed.


39 posted on 06/14/2008 11:08:18 AM PDT by Americanexpat
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To: cake_crumb
"The dead guards were Christians?

I doubt it.....but the former prisoners were captured in a war against the "occupation by Crusaders".. or so they say.

40 posted on 06/14/2008 11:47:45 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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