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April 25, 2011 Massive Prisoner Outbreak at Kandahar Prison 25 April 2011 Afghan officials say more than 400 prisoners, many of them Taliban, have escaped from Kandahar prison in southern Afghanistan through a tunnel. The prison is reported to hold approximately 1200 prisoners. Major Tim James, a spokesman for NATO forces in Kabul said the prison break started shortly after dark and continued until just before dawn Monday morning. NATO forces are on stand-by to try and track down these prisoners. "We don't know the exact number or how it happened," James said. "We know there's an operation ongoing to try to recover some of them." "Any escaped prisoners are always a concern," James said, "It's too early to say whether those prisoners pose a particular threat to [NATO] forces." "A tunnel hundreds of metres long was dug from the south of the prison into the prison and 476 political prisoners escaped last night," said General Ghulam Dastageer Mayar. It was not immediately clear if the tunnel had been built from inside the prison or originated outside. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the jailbreak that began late Sunday. The Mangalorean.com reports that "Deputy to Kandahar provincial police chief Shir Shah Yusufzai said so far eight escaped prisoners had been re-arrested. Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, who claims to speak for the Taliban outfit, said over 500 Taliban detainees have escaped from the jail including 106 commanders to escape." Deputy police chief Nasrallah Yusufzai spoke with reporters by telephone saying that the 400 yard tunnel dug by the prisoners connected up to an ancient underground irrigation network. This underground irrigation network dates back to the time of Alexander the Great. VOA News supplied some of the information for this report. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
