Four Inmates Die in Kabul Prison Rebellion (negotiations continue)

[Rose Siding]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Security forces backed by tanks and heavy guns surrounded Kabul's notorious main prison Monday as authorities negotiated with rioting prisoners controlling most of the facility. A government negotiator said four inmates were killed during the rebellion blamed on al-Qaida and Taliban militants.

Authorities warned they were prepared to use force to end the two-day standoff. Gunfire rang out from Policharki jail on the outskirts of the Afghan capital.

"We can take all these prisoners in one hour," deputy justice minister Mohammed Qasim Hashimzai told The Associated Press as he traveled to the prison Monday. "But to prevent bloodshed we are trying to negotiate."

Government negotiator Mohammed Ibrahim Sahdat told journalists after talking to the prisoners that four rioters had been killed and 38 wounded during the siege. Officials said the violence began when inmates refused to put on new uniforms, which were ordered after seven Taliban prisoners escaped last month by disguising themselves as visitors.

Prison authorities cut off water, electricity and food to the rioters, said Abdul Salaam Bakshi, chief of prisons in Afghanistan.

Inmates could be heard inside shouting, "God is Great!"

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-afghan-prison-riot,0,4370730.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[sattahipdeep]

1. Jonathan 'Jack' Idema?

Americans jailed in Afghan "private prison" trial

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3569552.stm

Heavily armed soldiers surrounded Afghanistan's main high
security prison last night, after Taliban and al-Qaida inmates
led a revolt that left at least 30 people wounded and possibly
several dead.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,1718600,00.html

Is Idema one of the several dead?

[sattahipdeep]

2. Or is he having tea with Mark Thatcher

:hi:

[sattahipdeep]

3. Gulf state of Oman

Her son was secretly paid by the firm which got the £216m contract.

Yet because the Labour frontbench let go their attack, the
prime minister was never obliged to tell parliament. The
scandal died away and she remained safe. Her undelivered
draft remained a secret in a Whitehall dossier, until it was
released to the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foi/story/0,,1699315,00.html

[daleo]

4. Remember Johnny "Mike" Spahn and the last prison riot?

Not good.

[sattahipdeep]

5. Never Forget John O'Neil

When the water is dark you sense it with a sense long unused.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/interviews/

[sattahipdeep]

6. The sixth man?

The Interior Ministry said gunfire erupted when officers
confronted five militants at a rental house in eastern Riyadh,
which the statement said was being used for meetings to plan
al-Qaida operations.

"After a fierce exchange of gunfire, security forces were able to
control the situation in a short time, killing all five at the scene,''
the statement said.

The sixth man was captured elsewhere in the neighborhood, the
statement said, without specifying where.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5651428,00.html

:think:

I'm sure someone can come up with a plan....daleo

[NYC]

8. Thanks for the reminder.

I had forgotten about Spahn.

[sattahipdeep]

7. Bloody Afghan prison siege over

Troops backed by tanks....

They included soldiers from the United States-led force battling the Taliban

Thanks kurth :hi:

Condoleezza Rice Grants Visa To Hardcore Taliban Supporter to Attend Yale

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=545986&mesg_id=545986

Nader Nadery of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, which
assisted negotiations, said riot ringleaders included Timoor Shah, who kidnapped
then freed an Italian aid worker last year and is under sentence of death.

Mr Nadery said about 200 of the Taliban prisoners, including some Pakistanis, were
being held without trial and had demanded to be tried or freed.

He said conditions at the prison had improved in the past two years, with
regular visits by rights monitors, but the siege showed the need for the
US-backed government to formulate legislation to deal with Taliban suspects caught in combat

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18322010%255E1702,00.html