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Just saw the news on BBC that 400 + taliban prisioners dug a 350m tunnel & escaped !

Amazing,

BBC News - Afghanistan: Hundreds escape from Kandahar prison

The BBC's Quentin Sommerville said prisoners did not break out but in fact people outside broke into the jail

More than 470 inmates at a prison in southern Afghanistan have escaped through a tunnel hundreds of metres long and dug from outside the jail.

Officials in the city of Kandahar said many of those who escaped from Sarposa jail were Taliban insurgents.

The Kandahar provincial governor's office said at least 12 had since been recaptured but gave no further details.

A spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the escape was a "disaster" which should never have happened.

The Taliban said it had taken five months to build the 320m (1,050ft) tunnel. It is believed to have been dug from a house rented by the Taliban.

About 100 of those who escaped were Taliban commanders, and most of the others were fighters with the insurgency. 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.

Kandahar's provincial authorities said that a search operation was under way.

One escapee told the BBC it had taken him about 30 minutes to walk the length of the tunnel. The escape took most of the night and vehicles were waiting at the exit point to take prisoners away.

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.

After that, millions of pounds were spent upgrading the prison. The 2008 breakout was followed by a major upsurge in violence.

The governor of Kandahar said some of the prisoners had been found

The prison is under Afghan control, but Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said it was ready to provide assistance if requested by Afghan officials.

Afghan politician and former MP Daoud Sultanzai told the BBC that the escape exposes "the porousness of our security apparatus".

He said its penetration by the Taliban was "really a serious matter".

Insurgents considered to be the most dangerous are likely to be held at a high-security facility outside the US Bagram air base, north of Kabul, rather than at the Sarposa prison, analysts say.

Nato forces are preparing for the long process of withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The first stage is the transfer of security powers to local forces from July, but Kandahar is not among the first tranche of provinces and cities to be handed over to the Afghans.

Analysts say that it is only to be expected that those regions will once again be the focus of insurgent activity as the Taliban will be planning to seize them back.
 
Soo sad to hear that. I hope they are get bullets fired by forces in hideouts. Seal the area, kill them all and not to let anyone escape. :angry:
 
I can see this as a 'convenient arrangement' from the NATO forces to stoke a war in Balochistan, just like they let 300 Taliban infiltrate from Nuristan, Afghanistan into Dir, Pakistan.
 
Our border forces should be on high alert as well.

by the way; this would not be possible without some knowledge or approval from ''turncoats'' within the prison itself.......its funny and rather odd that an escapee would even have the audacity to talk to the media about his escape.
this will obviously be a huge embarassment for the Afghan government. It's not the first time such a thing happened anyways.
 
I can see this as a 'convenient arrangement' from the NATO forces to stoke a war in Balochistan, just like they let 300 Taliban infiltrate from Kunar & Nuristan, Afghanistan into Dir, Pakistan.

consipracy theory to its height, dont forget that the same taliban who are attacking pakistan, have actually attacked afghan villages and disctricts in kunar and nuristan, their attack came in similar or even larger number.

and why would these newly freed taliban create a problem in balouchistan? they are supposedly being good taliban.
 
This is pure negligence from America, then they dare question us that we don't do enough. First look after your own border before looking at others.
 
Our border forces should be on high alert as well.

by the way; this would not be possible without some knowledge or approval from ''turncoats'' within the prison itself.......

this will obviously be a huge embarassment for the Afghan government. It's not the first time such a thing happened anyways.

but our gov have total imunity to the word shame, every single of them are a bunch of selfish shameless guys.
 
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this is the prison outlook from where 400 inmates ESCAPED :lol:
 
400+ prisoners escaped :what:. what were jail authorities doing?????? it seems to me a conspiracy. 10-20 prisoners escaping is ok but 400+ prisoners are just unbelievable.
 
This shows the inefficiency of the Afghan Army, and the Karzai government, who seem to love taking pot shots at Pakistan but without looking at there own mistakes. Pakistan also has the problem, however at least our Army has made progress in the last few months, unlike in Afghanistan the situation looks bad, what a shame.
 
This is pure negligence from America, then they dare question us that we don't do enough. First look after your own border before looking at others.

Don't blaim US for this crap, Afgan security people needs to wake up and start defending their own country. US mama not going to feed all the time in golden spoon. So they better do something about it and stop blaming people.
 
consipracy theory to its height, dont forget that the same taliban who are attacking pakistan, have actually attacked afghan villages and disctricts in kunar and nuristan, their attack came in similar or even larger number.

and why would these newly freed taliban create a problem in balouchistan? they are supposedly being good taliban.

There is no good Taliban, however there are certain factions of the Taliban that are not against the state of Pakistan, & Pakistan doesn't attack them (doesn't mean it supports them either!). There are others that get their safe havens in Kunar, Nuristan; & attack Mohmand, Bajaur Agencies & Dir respectively. This has been shown in the last few days. Qari Zia Rahman of the TTP operates from Nuristan & Kunar, Afghanistan & conducts attacks in Bajaur & Mohmand Agencies, Pakistan. You know that Taliban somehow 'escaped' from Nuristan, & killed 19 troops in Dir, Pakistan. These are not conspiracy theories, all you need to do is look at a map & see the porous Afghan-Pakistan border.

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Similarly, there were recent events that took place where Afghan terrorists infiltrated from Khost, Afghanistan & conducted operations in North Waziristan.

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Similarly, I see this ploy of letting 400+ 'militants' (every militant in the American definition is a Taliban) from Kandahar escape to target the Quetta Shoora in Balochistan, Pakistan; as the US sees Mullah Umar & the Quetta Shoora as its biggest threat.

It's no surprise that two of the biggest prisoner 'escapes' happened in a matter of days. Coincidence? Not really. That's my perspective though, & I can see the NATO forces playing a dirty game in Afghanistan at the behest of both Afghanistan & Pakistan.
 

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