Taliban Jailbreak: Hundreds Escape Afghanistan Prison

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It took years to lock them up. Hundreds of enemy fighters captured during some of the fiercest combat of the war. But then, one night last spring, as American troops surged into Taliban territory, all of those prisoners, all of that progress, disappeared. Poof. Luke Mogelson ventures down the rabbit hole to find them

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• This picture taken on April 27, 2011 shows a general view of Kandahar jail (top centre) and the house (bottom right) from which Taliban militiamen dug a tunnel to the prison in Kandahar. (Mamoon Durrani/AFP/Getty Images)

• A US army soldier stands guard at the gate of a house which Taliban fighters used for the exit point of an escape tunnel for an audacious jailbreak from Kandahar prison in southern Kandahar city on April 25, 2011. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

• An Afghan policemen takes a look at the opening of tunnel at the main prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan which prisoners escaped through on Monday, April 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

Comments

[pcs5141]

01:29 PM on 05/29/2012

In this war it should be no prisioners.Mere coincidence that they escaped just as American troops surged into taliban territory ??????? Afganistan and Pakistan are playin both sides and Obama signed us up to send billions over there.

[KIampfbeobachter]

01:08 PM on 05/29/2012

The revolutionary must swim in the populace like a fish in water.
Mao Tzedong.

[Leon Engelun]

11:59 AM on 05/29/2012

who supplied the prisoners with a jack hammer to break up the concrete?

[john yunker]

01:23 PM on 05/29/2012

Allah parted it and used scarabs to move the dirt

[pcs5141]

01:31 PM on 05/29/2012

Was made in USA,donated by military contractor association.