Afghan militants (Taliban) attack Kandahar prison and free inmates

[kenny blankenship]

Guardian Online: Afghan militants attack Kandahar prison and free inmates

Up to 1,000 prisoners, including 400 Taliban militants, were on the run in Kandahar last night after a dramatic Taliban assault on the southern Afghan city's main prison.

The militants blew the prison gates open with a massive truck bomb and flooded inside, attacking the guards and freeing the inmates. A jubilant Taliban spokesman said the group had deployed 30 motorcycle mounted attackers and two suicide bombers.

Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the president Hamid Karzai and head of Kandahar's provincial council, said that "all" the prisoners had escaped.
Authorities in Kandahar declared a state of emergency as police and soldiers swarmed across the city in an attempt to round up the fugitives.

The Taliban said the attack on the prison, the biggest in southern Afghanistan, had been in preparation for two months. "Today we succeeded," Qari Yousaf Ahmadi told the Associated Press, adding that the escapees were "are safe in town and they are going to their homes".
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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. SHHH didn't you hear that the news was suspended as a saint passed today?

And to those of you who think this is not appropriate.. bite me

(I fear I need to translate... this wall to wall suspension of the news is shall we say.... excessive. We have REAL news)

[kenny blankenship]

2. Yeah, my bad

Actually my post is a dupe, I now see; but the prior report of the Taliban prison break by Bloo-in-Bloo was so buried by all the potato farmin' threads that I didn't notice it.

save the semicolon!

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Well we can try to kick it again

see if folks get a freaking clue

[FirstLight]

4. I actually yelled "good" at the car radio when I heard this

I am hoping that the incarceration didn't create too many terrorists...but that's what happens when you imprison & torture people. (yea, regular people...teachers, fathers, merchants, guys in the wrong place at the wrong time)

Impeach, Indict, incarcerate the * and accecories to the warcrimes!
bastards

[Marrah_G]

5. The 400 Taliban back out doesn't make me happy

Nothing to cheer about with those guys.

[opihimoimoi]

6. #4,,,need 1 more R

I thought we had that place unner control???> WTF? <