They unwittingly lead us back to their nest where they can be receive a care package from the USAF.
Posted on 06/13/2008 2:44:49 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Jail Blast Frees Hundreds Of Taliban
Updated:22:34, Friday June 13, 2008 Hundreds of Taliban militants have escaped from a prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, after a co-ordinated suicide bomb and rocket attack tore through the jail's defences.
Nearly all of an estimated 1,150 prisoners fled when a Taliban suicide bomber blew open the main gate, officials said.
Eyewitnesses reported that the fighters fired several rockets at various parts of the mud-built prison.
"All the prisoners escaped. There is no one left," said Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai and the president of Kandahar's provincial council.
Militants first exploded a water tanker near the entrance to the gate of the prison, then several suicide bombers entered and blew themselves up, he added.
A shopkeeper who sells vegetables near the prison said he saw escaped prisoners run toward pomegranate and grape groves that lie behind it.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
This prison break was planned before the US Supreme Court announced that it was going to reach out and free all terrorists everywhere.
There shouldn’t be anymore need for prison breaks.
Yes...suicide bomber should have just waited for our Supreme Court decision....same damn hting....I HATE LIBERALS...they are gonna get us ALL KILLED!
Wait until they figure out that biochips have been injected into their buttocks and we are secretly tracking them via satellites.
This prison break was planned before the US Supreme Court announced that it was going to reach out and free all terrorists everywhere.
There shouldn’t be anymore need for prison breaks.
Geez, I wish that were true! Should be standard operating procedure with these scumbags.
***Eyewitnesses reported that the fighters fired several rockets at various parts of the mud-built prison.***
There’s one of the problems.
Its time to go back to the mid 20th century custom of immediately hanging guerillas.
How many years of work did this undo?
Good thing it wasn’t done in 1776.
Prison break. Let’s assume that they are armed and dangerous now, and should be shot on site.
Woah... that had to make quite a mess.
Seriously bad news. Well, nuts. You takes yer good days, and you takes yer bad days, I guess.
Now’s probably a good time to get out of afghanistan, stop nationbuilding, and leave this third world pit to rot. IMO.
Perhaps, but I believe you’re overly pessimistic. We’re struggling against the tide of this inhumane idiocy, that’s for sure. But what happenned here indicates how desperate the Taliban is - in other words, they are losing!
What we should do is realize our work in Europe and Japan was completed long ago and it is high time we left. Those socialist nations will never get the notion to finance a proactive military as long as someone else is willing to pay for their defense. They can do without our hovering presence.
Ahmadi, the Taliban spokesman, said militants had been planning the assault for the last two month, "to release our Taliban friends." "Today we succeeded," he said. The escaped prisoners "are safe in town and they are going to their homes."
There was also reports of heavy gunfire in the background, and 5 British paratroopers killed in that area this week.
Oh boy, I WISH .. can I have a hope it’s true?
Agonized PING!
I’m praying it is possible.
Odd???!!!! Nothing on any of my official FRWN sources on this.
“All the prisoners escaped. There is no one left,”
***Doesn’t smell right. There would be some dead, some wounded prisoners, guards blocking their way, that kind of thing.
They unwittingly lead us back to their nest where they can be receive a care package from the USAF.
“....guards blocking their way, that kind of thing.”
Apparently the guards had gotten complacent and concentrated in a guard-house near the front gate. Most, if not all, of the prison guards were killed by the truck bomb. I’m sure any survivors were quickly finished off.
Further proof that it should be exceeding difficult to achieve “prisoner status” on a battlefield involving Jihadists who surrender KNOWING their brothers will eventually forgive and release them...
Captured prisoners should be interrogated to determine innocence or guilt — execute the guilty and release the innocent..
Nano-RFID
You are what you eat. ;-)
I waited to hear NBC Brian Williams who was reporting from Afganistan say something about this. I heard nothing. It was all about Tim Russert.
“It was all about Tim Russert.”
Yeah, I can understand being a big name and all....but I would think they’d put a little bit more air time on 1500 scum who will now be coming back to kill us. I say any that are re-captured should be executed solely for their escape, whether they were supposed to be there or not.
That does it. Take no prisoners.
Good times..and..Good hunting in the weeks and few months to come.......It is easier to spin the truth than to hide al ie.....
Our new stance on prisoners should be
Infiltrate
Interrogate
Eradicate
NEXT
Part of the problem is that some folks today can’t tell the difference between our founding fathers and the taliban. Those folks are called liberals, and they’ll get us all killed if we let them. The same folks who support the taliban while condemning the heroes of 1776, support murdering babies, the sick, the injured, and the elderly under the guise of “right to choose” and “right to die.” Make no mistake, they want us all dead, and they don’t much care how they do it.
Heh..good plan.
You surely won't find them at GITMO anymore ;-)
This was yesterday too....DAMMIT! Well, you’re right, no need for prison breaks anymore. Now they can just use US taxpayer dollars to appeal, and appeal, and appeal and appeal...until they blow up the court houses.
The dead guards were Christians?
Another good arguement for not taking prisoners. For any of you dip shits that want to argue about the enemy doing the same to our soldiers and Marines taken prisoner show me one American soldier captured by the taliban or Al Queda that has been teturned unharmed.
I doubt it.....but the former prisoners were captured in a war against the "occupation by Crusaders".. or so they say.
Afghan official: 870 inmates escaped from prison
NOOR KHAN and JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080614/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan;_ylt=AoGi9gtnWwzrFvCNN2FlhVOs0NUE
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - U.S. and NATO troops aided Afghan forces with reconnaissance in a hunt Saturday for 870 inmates who escaped prison after a sophisticated Taliban assault that even NATO conceded was a success for the militants.
A roadside bomb, meanwhile, killed four U.S. Marines sent to southwestern Afghanistan to help train the country’s fledgling police. The deadliest attack on American forces this year came one day after the U.S. defense secretary highlighted the fact that more American and allied troops were killed in Afghanistan than in Iraq last month.
Afghanistan’s deputy interior minister, Munid Mangal, said about 1,000 prisoners were housed in Kandahar’s Sarposa Prison when dozens of militants on motorbikes attacked the facility late Friday. Seven police and several prisoners died in the assault, he said.
One suicide bomber detonated a tanker truck full of explosives at the prison gate while a second bomber blasted another escape route through a back wall. Rockets fired from inside the prison’s courtyard collapsed an upper floor.
The police chief of Kandahar province, Sayed Agha Saqib, said 390 Taliban prisoners were among the 870 inmates who escaped. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force first said Saturday that 1,100 prisoners had escaped but later revised the figure to around 900.
The NATO force’s chief spokesman, Brig. Gen. Carlos Branco, conceded that the militants pulled off a “very successful operation.”
“We admit it,” Branco said. “Their guys did the job properly in that sense, but it does not have a strategic impact. We should not draw any conclusion about the deterioration of the military operations in the area. We should not draw any conclusion about the strength of the Taliban.”
NATO was providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets to help track fleeing militants, Branco said. U.S. forces helped transport Afghan army personnel to the scene “so that they could catch the prisoners who escaped,” said U.S. Capt. Christian Patterson.
There were no indications that the militants received help from the inside, but the prison’s chief official, Abdul Qadir, was placed under investigation for possible involvement, said Mohammad Qasim Hashimzai, a deputy minister at the Justice Ministry.
Afghan officials warned that the Taliban essentially boosted its force by 400 fighters — including several thwarted suicide bombers — because of the prison break, but Branco said NATO officials didn’t think it would change the military situation.
A man who claimed to be one of the militants who escaped, Abdul Nafai, called an Associated Press reporter and said the insurgents had minibuses waiting outside the prison during the attack and that dozens of militants fled in the vehicles. Other eyewitnesses and officials said the militants fled on foot into pomegranate and grape groves behind the prison.
Hashimzai said the jail did not meet international minimum standards for a prison. The Kandahar facility was not built as a prison but had been modified into one, he said.
“Plans are under way to renovate all the prisons around the country,” said Hashimzai. “Kandahar was one of them, but unfortunately what happened last night is cause for concern.”
Kandahar was the Taliban’s former stronghold and its province has been the scene of fierce fighting the past two years between insurgents and NATO troops, primarily from Canada and the United States.
The Marines attacked in the roadside bombing in nearby Farah province were from the 2nd Battalion, 7th Regiment based in Twentynine Palms, Calif. They arrived in Afghanistan earlier this year and were sent to southern and western Afghanistan to train police. Four Marines were killed and one was wounded in the blast.
The bombing comes one day after Defense Secretary Robert Gates told his counterparts in Europe that for the first time, the monthly total of American and allied combat deaths in Afghanistan exceeded the toll in Iraq during May.
The four deaths bring to at least 44 the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan this year, according to an Associated Press count. No more than two U.S. personnel had been killed in any one attack in Afghanistan this year, according to the AP tally.
Oh wait, Kandahar’s in Afghanistan, isn’t it. Whoops.
Oh well, close enough....
And .. I predict that this is exactly what will happen if we move the current detainees from Cuba to prisons in the USA.
Welcome to the real world .. these killers have their supporters here and they would love to break all ALL THE TERRORISTS loose in the USA.
For all those who want to close Gitmo .. they better think about it again. We have a secure place now .. but it will not be secure if they move the prisoners to the USA.
Just imagine .. a group of terrorists hijacks a town near the prison and threatens to kill everyone in the town (or actually kills a few of them [probably family of the guards] to show they mean business) unless we release the terrorists.
That is not a scenario I even want to think about .. but if we don’t “imagine” that happening .. then we’re not paying attention to how the terrorists operate.
THESE DAMN LIBERALS ARE GOING TO GET A LOT OF PEOPLE KILLED.
Somebody needs to change McCain’s mind about closing Gitmo. Closing it will only strengthen the terrorists.
ARE WE THAT STUPID .. OR COWARDLY ..??????
A person who received an abortion is as bad as the Taliban? I’m sure you are also not voting for McCain because he isn’t the perfect conservative either.
Make no mistake, Abortion and the war on terror are one in the same.
Sigh ...
However, your last sentence does need repeating, as it should be common sense during war against an enemmy who does not fight by the "globally acceptable rules of war".
Captured prisoners should be interrogated to determine innocence or guilt — execute the guilty and release the innocent..
I see you have a problem with me insulting liberals. After looking at your profile page, and seeing at the bottom that you are mostly liberal, (100% liberal in the ethics department), I can see why you’d be upset over me insulting liberals. You say that pro-lifers don’t deserve to live. How do you propose to kill us?
Make no mistake, Abortion and the war on terror are one in the same.
I'm not quite sure what you're saying here, would you mind clarifying it a little?
I HOPE that you aren't comparing pro-life groups to the Taliban or otherwise trying to marginalize the pro-life movement (like most non-conservatives do), but I'm not sure.
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