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14-06-2008, 02:33 PM
Taliban Fighters Flee After Jail Break
Up to 1,000 prisoners, including 400 Taliban militants, are on the run following an audacious breakout from a jail in Afghanistan.
Fifteen security staff were reported dead after a well-planned attack on Sarposa Prison in Kandahar involving a car bomb, suicide bombers and rocket explosions.
Sky's Andrew Wilson, reporting from Camp Bastion in Helmand province, says it is further evidence of a major shift in tactics by the insurgents' commanders.
The attack began with the blowing of the jail's entrance by a suicide bomber blowing up a lorry.
Several dozen Taliban, armed with rocket propelled grenades and assault rifles then stormed the mud-built compound and started to free the prisoners which apart from militants included women and suspected criminals.
More for blackwater to shoot at .... as if they needed more
freedom is the grandchildren we are the caretakers
Up to 1,000 prisoners, including 400 Taliban militants, are on the run following an audacious breakout from a jail in Afghanistan.
Fifteen security staff were reported dead after a well-planned attack on Sarposa Prison in Kandahar involving a car bomb, suicide bombers and rocket explosions.
Sky's Andrew Wilson, reporting from Camp Bastion in Helmand province, says it is further evidence of a major shift in tactics by the insurgents' commanders.
The attack began with the blowing of the jail's entrance by a suicide bomber blowing up a lorry.
Several dozen Taliban, armed with rocket propelled grenades and assault rifles then stormed the mud-built compound and started to free the prisoners which apart from militants included women and suspected criminals.
More for blackwater to shoot at .... as if they needed more
freedom is the grandchildren we are the caretakers