The Great Escape…
A Nato spokesman said this morning that as many as 1,100 detainees had escaped after the Taliban attacked Sarposa Prison in Kandahar using suicide bombers, a truck bomb and rockets, killing at least nine security guards.
“A massive operation is under way to find the escaped inmates,” said Afghanistan’s deputy justice minister Qasim Hashimzai. (…)
The attackers struck with a bomb concealed in a water tanker that blew apart the prison gates, allowing a suicide bomber to dash inside and destroy two mud walls crushing police officers and guards.
At the same time, Taliban fighters on motorbike fired rockets at the complex in what an Afghan minister described as the rebels’ “most sophisticated attack yet.”
Indeed. The last time I heard of a big taliban operation, there were six or seven hundred of them who attacked an army base from the front. A few dozens walked away from that one.
June 14th, 2008 at 21:23
Maybe this time the coalition will resist the temptation to take prisoners?
June 14th, 2008 at 22:02
…or maybe they’ll just shoot the people they capture. Or they had too many relatives on their hands, somebody leaked the details about the place.
Sitting here in Canada, I can’t tell what went down exactly. But their plan worked. A VBIED, a suicide bomber and a bunch of guys shooting all in the same direction.
I’d like to mention that such an attack couldn’t happen in Guantanamo Bay. You couldn’t drive a truck there with troops to pull off a stunt like this.
But when Americans keep their prisoners secure and away from the civilian population, they’re nazis.
Well in A’stan, over a thousand “nazis” are on the loose now.