Reply #7: The Guardian are saying it's a 1,050ft (320 metres) long tunnel... [View All]

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Which is still extremely long...

Taliban tunnel breakout outwits Afghan jailers
Nearly 500 inmates of Kandahar prison disappear down 1,000ft tunnel – just in time for 'fighting season'

Jon Boone in Kabul
guardian.co.uk, Monday April 25 2011 09.06 BST

Afghan and Nato forces have launched a huge operation to try to recapture 475 prisoners, nearly all of them Taliban insurgents, who staged an extraordinary mass prison breakout using a tunnel.

Officials said the inmates had escaped through the tunnel, dug from a house to the wing of the prison where political prisoners are detained in Kandahar.

In an email, Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said the tunnel was 1,050ft (320 metres) long and had taken five months to construct, "bypassing enemy check posts and Kandahar-Kabul main highway leading directly to the political prison".

He said just three insurgents inside the prison had known about the plot. They helped ferry the prisoners out of the jail in an operation lasting four and a half hours.

Full article with more details: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/25/taliban-tunnel-jail-afghan-kandahar