Hillier regrets intelligence breakdown

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Ottawa — The Chief of Canada's Defence Staff says he regrets that intelligence services did not provide information that could have thwarted the well-organized prison break in Kandahar last week that freed hundreds of Taliban prisoners.

"Obviously we would have liked to have known so we could have pre-empted or helped, more accurately, the Afghans pre-empt that kind of thing," Gen. Rick Hillier told reporters after meeting with the Commons Defence Committee Tuesday.

"Clearly we did not. And so we just tend to sort of put our elbows down and get to work to make sure we try to get an even better perspective of what we think might occur in the future so we can pro-actively pre-empt it in a variety of ways."

The general's comments came a day after Foreign Affairs Minister David Emerson said there will be an investigation to determine why Canadian intelligence heard nothing before the elaborate attack.

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Intelligence breakdown. Seems like we have heard this one before?

Hiller seems to be the one that is now going to receive Harper's revenge!