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 Taliban-Led Raid Frees 1,200 in Afghan Prison BreakPosted on Jun 14, 2008
A nighttime raid on Kandahar’s Sarposa Prison, carried out by Taliban operatives Friday, led to the escape of 1,200 prisoners, including around 400 Taliban members. The attack represented a serious security challenge in the Afghan city that’s considered the traditional home of the country’s leaders and the Taliban’s spiritual center.
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By ocjim, June 19, 2008 at 7:50 pm #
Incompetence, arrogance, and politics is such an endemic part of BushCo, one has to posit that the same in Afghanistan. After all, it was abandoned for the neocon target of Iraq. The resources weren’t even there to guard Taliban prisoners. That too will cost British and American lives. The latter is not important for the Bush crime family.
Report thisBy Marshall, June 15, 2008 at 9:18 pm #
It’s amusing to see those who certainly vehemently opposed the Taliban when it was in power - demolishing Buddhist statuary in Afghanistan - now supporting the Taliban simply because the U.S. opposes them. Now the very males and females that fought us on the battlefield, strapped on suicide vests, or gave succor to those who did, have suddenly morphed into hapless innocents and victims, caught in the crossfire.
Report thisBy lodipete, June 15, 2008 at 9:34 am #
....and now Karzai has threatened to send “his troops” accross the border into Pakistan in hot pursuit.
Report thisBy nefertiti, June 15, 2008 at 5:12 am #
A reporter from AL Jazeera said the talibans managed to bring about 40 cars at night to make the escape , and the searches only started the next day in the morning . that must have been an embarrassment to many (US ,Afghans, Nato ...)
Report thisBy nefertiti, June 15, 2008 at 5:11 am #
I saw a documentary last year on AL jazeera about a Doctor from Mazar sharif who was SOLD to the Americans as a taliban , spent 3 horrifying years (according to him) in Gitmo and when he was released , he could not find his wife and child , his surgery looted and stripped from everything windows , doors, taps and wiring , some scatters living in it . He looked depressed and totally lost and was still trying to find out what happened to his family. it was really sad . (Many of them were sold for profits or sold to the Americans by their enemies or someone who had a grudge against them. there is a movie about this soon , announced on CNN this week )
Report thisBy cyrena, June 15, 2008 at 12:28 am #
Sounds like a whole bunch of these ‘prisoners’ were just like the majority of the Gitmo prisoners. Guilty of NOTHING other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. And how do they have 80 females locked up in an Afghanistan prison anyway?
Are they ‘terrorists’ too? I KNOW they aren’t Taliban.
Report thisBy nefertiti, June 14, 2008 at 12:31 pm #
Ooops .
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