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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Nearly all of an estimated 1,150 prisoners, including some 400 Taliban inmates, fled a prison in Kandahar on Friday after Taliban insurgents blew open the main gate, officials said.

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...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents blew open the gate of a main prison in the Afghan city of Kandahar on Friday, allowing hundreds of prisoners including suspected militants to escape, officials said. Under cover of darkness, nearly all of an estimated 1,150 prisoners, including some 400 Taliban inmates, fled from the jail, two officials in the southern city of Kandahar told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Another official said between 750 and 800 prisoners had managed to escape, adding some prisoners were killed in a gun battle between police and Taliban fighters inside the jail. "I think scores of...

LAUREL, Md. — An inmate who escaped from a Maryland hospital with a guard's gun and shot a driver in the head in a carjacking during his getaway is dead, Prince George's County Police told FOXNews.com Kelvin Poke, 45, was shot and killed during his capture, apparently in an exchange of gunfire with officers near Cedar Hill Cemetery in Suitland, Md., according to a spokesman for Prince George's County Police Department. Poke was pronounced dead at Prince George's Hospital Center, said Suzanne Almalel, a spokeswoman for Dimensions Healthcare System, which operates the hospital.

An inmate who escaped from a Maryland hospital with a guard's gun and shot a driver in the head in a carjacking during his getaway is dead, Prince George's County Police told FOXNews.com Kelvin Poke, 45, was shot and killed during his capture, apparently in an exchange of gunfire with officers near Cedar Hill Cemetery in Suitland, Md., according to a spokesman for Prince George's County Police Department. Poke was pronounced dead at Prince George's Hospital Center, said Suzanne Almalel, a spokeswoman for Dimensions Healthcare System, which operates the hospital. During a 4 p.m. EST press conference, Maryland State Police...

LAUREL, Md. — A manhunt was under way for an inmate serving life in prison for kidnapping and other crimes after he escaped from a hospital with a guard's gun, then drove off in a vehicle after shooting the driver in the head. Authorities were searching for Kelvin Poke, 45, who carjacked a second car after abandoning the first, Maryland State Police spokesman Greg Shipley told reporters Wednesday. "There is an active search under way in the District of Columbia," said Shipley. Federal authorities and the U.S. Marshals Service were involved

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Belgian authorities on Saturday released 14 suspects detained over an alleged plot to free an al-Qaida prisoner after a court decided there was insufficient evidence to hold them for more than 24 hours, the Federal Prosecutor's office said. ADVERTISEMENT The government's Crisis Center said the investigation was not over. And Lieve Pellens, spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office, said tightened anti-terrorism measures triggered by the arrest of the suspected Islamic militants on Friday would remain in place over the holidays. "We think there is still a threat," Pellens said in a telephone interview. Police picked up the 14...

Fourteen people arrested in Belgium on suspicion of plotting to free a convicted al-Qaeda member from jail have been released without charge. The suspects were released for lack of evidence after 24 hours in custody. They were suspected of plotting to free Tunisian national Nizar Trabelsi, jailed in Belgium in 2003 for planning to attack US targets. In spite of the releases, the interior ministry said heightened security measures would remain in place. The federal prosecutor's office said searches at suspects' homes had yielded no explosives, weapons or other evidence to persuade the court to keep them in jail. "According...

Belgium arrests 14 in terrorist plot By RAF CASERT, Associated Press Writer BRUSSELS, Belgium - Belgian police Friday arrested 14 Muslim extremists suspected of planning the jailbreak of an al-Qaida prisoner convicted of plotting a terrorist attack on U.S. air base personnel, officials said. Extra police were deployed across the capital at airports, subway stations and other public places. The U.S. Embassy warned Americans of "a heightened risk of terrorist attack in Brussels," although it had no indication of any American targets. Police arrested the 14 in all-night raids across the country and discovered arms and explosives apparently intended for...

Belgium foils al-Qaeda jailbreak Trabelsi said he had met Bin Laden Fourteen people have been arrested in Belgium after authorities foiled a plot to free an al-Qaeda member arrested in September 2001, officials say.The suspects, detained in police raids, were described as Islamic militants. They were seeking to free Tunisian Nizar Trabelsi, jailed in Belgium for planning to attack US targets. An official said the plot involved explosives and that security was being stepped up in the capital over fears of a "possible attack". Belgium hosts the main European Union institutions and Nato headquarters, as well as a raft...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26, 2007 – Seven Iraqi citizens found their way to a coalition patrol base near Khan Ban Sa’ad, Iraq, yesterday after escaping a makeshift prison, military officials reported. The alleged captors were linked to an earlier operation yesterday when attack helicopters patrolling the area observed three individuals moving in a tactical formation through a ditch. Coalition forces positively identified the individuals as hostile enemy forces and fired on their position, killing all three. The escapees identified the remains of the three individuals as their captors and led coalition ground forces to the makeshift prison, officials said. Inside the...

NUEVO LAREDO - A group of armed men overpowered two state prison guards and broke out three federal inmates as the prisoners were being transported Wednesday night from a hospital to the state prison (CERESO I).According to a handout from the local Mexican Army command office, the three prisoners had been taken to the hospital to treat injuries sustained in a fight with other inmates at the Centro de Rehabilitacion Social detention facility. The inmates were identified as Oscar Acosta Domiguez, 33, Jesus Salgado Gallardo, 35, and Margarito Daona Martinez, 21. Military garrison officials reported that Acosta Dominguez, Salgado Gallardo...

CARACAS, Venezuela: A former opposition governor has escaped from a prison in northwestern Venezuela, authorities said Sunday. It was the second high-profile jail break by a foe of President Hugo Chavez in less than a year. Eduardo Lapi, ex-governor of Yaracuy state, was reported missing by prison authorities early Sunday from the San Felipe jail, where he was being held on corruption charges.

Dozens of gunmen stormed an Iraqi jail in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday and freed up to 140 prisoners in one of the biggest prison breaks since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, police said. Militants attacked Mosul's northwestern Badoush prison just after sunset in the ethnically mixed city and overwhelmed police, who were forced to call the U.S. military for backup. Most of the prisoners were believed to be insurgents, police said. Saddam Hussein's nephew, Ayham Sabawi, escaped the same prison in December after he was accused of financing the Sunni insurgency against U.S. forces and the Shi'ite-led...

Latin America: Donald Rumsfeld once observed that Venezuelans had a way of fixing political problems on their own, with no need of U.S. intervention. The dramatic prison break of a union boss may be the first sign. Carlos Ortega's escape Sunday from a Venezuelan maximum security military prison must have sent a shiver through the tyrannical leftist regime of President Hugo Chavez. The tough union boss had crossed Chavez before and was serving a 16-year sentence for leading a vast oil-worker strike in 2002-03. Like Lech Walesa of Poland, Ortega called for independent union leadership at Venezuela's state oil company...

Terror suspects 'flee Saudi jail' The Interior Ministry said the fugitives were 'religious extremists' Seven terror suspects have escaped from prison in Saudi Arabia, according to the country's Interior Ministry. Saudi-owned television Al Arabiya said the fugitives - six Saudis and one Yemeni - were linked to al-Qaeda. Saudi Arabia has been battling a campaign of violence by al-Qaeda aimed at toppling the pro-US monarchy. The suspects fled Malaz prison in the capital Riyadh, where they had been held over "security related issues," an Interior Ministry statement said. The term is used by Saudi authorities to describe terrorism charges. Radical...

There are hornets in the siding of my home. Every time I smoke them out, they set up shop elsewhere. But today’s tale is about the ones inside. A few get in through the bathroom vent. They wear themselves out against the plate glass window, trying to escape. Eventually, they fall to the floor and die. I realized this week that there is a lot in common between those dying hornets and civilization in the United States. The dying hornets first lose their ability to fly, and then their ability to walk. But driven by ancient memories, they try to...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - About 100 masked gunmen stormed a prison near the Iranian border Tuesday, cutting phone wires, freeing all the inmates and leaving behind a scene of devastation and carnage — 20 dead policemen, burned-out cars and a smoldering jailhouse. At least 10 attackers were killed in the dawn assault on the Muqdadiyah lockup on the eastern fringe of the Sunni Triangle, police said. The raid showed the mostly Sunni militants can still assemble a large force, capable of operating in the region virtually at will — even though U.S. and Iraqi military officials said last year that the...

Many dead in Iraqi prison break The attack was well-planned, the town's mayor said Iraqi insurgents have attacked a police station killing at least 20 people and freeing about 30 prisoners, police say. As many as 100 attackers, armed with assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, took part in the raid, which began around dawn. The attack took place in the town of Miqdadiya, near Baquba, 65km (40 miles) north of the capital. Authorities said 10 insurgents were killed in the fire fight - one of the bloodiest clashes of recent months. The gunmen arrived in civilian vehicles and attacked...

<p>Yemeni forces have recaptured three Al Qaeda inmates who were part of a group that tunneled out of jail in the Arab country last month, a government official said. He gave no details on who they were.</p>

SANAA, March 6 (Reuters) - Yemeni forces have recaptured three al Qaeda inmates who were part of a group that tunnelled out of jail in the Arab country last month, a government official said on Monday. "Authorities arrested three of the al Qaeda escapees in Sanaa on Sunday," the official told Reuters. He gave no further detail of their identities. Last month, President Ali Abdullah Saleh said three other al Qaeda militants -- part of a group of 23 inmates who broke out of jail -- had surrendered to authorities. Saleh had told al-Hayat newspaper that security forces were also...

A Cook County Jail guard has admitted to investigators that he helped six inmates escape over the weekend to give a political advantage to a former jail supervisor running for sheriff... The 36-year-old guard confessed that he allowed a convicted killer, two accused robbers and two others charged with aggravated kidnapping and battery to bust out of the jail to cast a shadow on Sheriff Michael Sheahan's management of the complex at 26th and California. The guard knew the negative publicity would hurt Sheahan's chief of staff, Tom Dart, who is running for sheriff... And the guard admitted he helped...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - An American wanted for allegedly training with the "Lackawanna Six" at an al-Qaida camp was among the 23 men who tunneled out of a Yemeni prison last week, the FBI confirmed Friday. Authorities earlier said they believed Jaber Elbaneh, 39, was probably among the escapees, but were not certain because of conflicting information, including a posting by the international police organization Interpol that pictured Elbaneh but described someone else. Elbaneh is charged in Buffalo with providing material support to al-Qaida by attending the al-Farooq training camp run by Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan months before the Sept....

LYON, France - A man considered a mastermind of the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in a Yemeni port in 2000 was among 23 people who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said Sunday. The international police agency issued an "urgent global security alert" for those who escaped Friday from the prison via a tunnel. It called the escapees "dangerous individuals." A Yemen security official announced the escape of convicted al-Qaida members Friday but did not provide details. Interpol said in a statement that at least 13 of the 23 escapees were convicted al-Qaida fighters, who...

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SANAA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Thirteen al Qaeda militants convicted in the attacks on the U.S. warship Cole and the French supertanker Limburg in Yemen were among 23 men who broke out of jail in Sanaa, a state-run Web site said on Saturday. The September 26 site (www.26sep.net) quoted unnamed sources saying the 13 convicts included top militants Jamal Badawi and Fawaz al-Rabe'ie, who managed to flee the central prison by digging a 70-metre-long tunnel. Rabe'ie -- the leader of the group convicted of bombing the Limburg in 2002 -- was facing the death sentence, while Badawi was serving 15...

A group of 23 members of Al Qaida have escaped from a prison in Yemen. The men were condemned for various terrorist crimes. It isn't known how they escaped from the detention centre of the military intelligence service in the Yemen capital Sana. The identity of the men is not yet known.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Several Iraqi prison guards and detainees were killed in a shootout on Wednesday at a Baghdad high-security jail after at least one prisoner grabbed a weapon and opened fire, military officials and police sources said. Military and police officials stood by sharply differing death tolls among the high-risk security detainees, however; the U.S. and Iraqi armies both said four inmates were killed and the U.S. military said five security personnel also died. A U.S. soldier was among six people wounded. A prison guard who said he witnessed the early morning bloodshed told Reuters he saw five prisoners...

When a sheriff's deputy approached the bench of a Harris County courtroom to ask the judge what she wanted to do with the man just found guilty, Nicholas Scardino, 25, decided not to wait for an answer. "He left the courtroom before he was told what was to be done with him," said Harris County spokeswoman Sgt. D. M. Wolf. Scardino bolted from the courtroom at about 3:10 p.m., Wolf said. He had just been found guilty of unauthorized use of a vehicle and evading arrest in the 339th state District Court. He was out on bail at the time...

13 December 2005 – A Romanian Special Police Unit working under the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) came under fire yesterday during an unsuccessful prison breakout by 14 inmates in the western part of the province, which the world body has administered since 1999. There were no casualties, but two vehicles were hit by gunfire, a UN spokesman said today. Within the prison, staff managed to reassert control after initially being overpowered. Simultaneously, however, the Romanian Unit was shot at by unknown persons. Police are investigating the events both inside and outside the prison. The UN has...

PARIS (Reuters) - Three prisoners escaped from a prison in eastern France on Saturday in a helicopter hijacked from a nearby airport before it was due to leave to pick up skiers in the nearby Alps mountains, jail official said. Two armed men hijacked the helicopter in Albertville and forced the pilot to land in the prison courtyard about 10 minutes away, they said. The three prisoners hopped aboard and all five later fled by foot after the craft landed. They had not been found by nightfall, the officials said. Officials declined to name the escapees but said one was...

Convicted killers are walking out of state prisons, thanks to a series of controversial rulings by judges who decided the jailbirds were charged with the wrong type of murder. In bizarre cases of justice gone wild, the Daily News has found that even murderers who meant to kill their victims are being put back on the streets. In a typical case, lawyers for Brooklyn chef David Policano, 47, admitted he was guilty of intentional murder, a second-degree murder rap. But then they argued he should be freed because he was convicted of a different type of second-degree murder, depraved indifference...

YAKIMA, Wash. - Two jail escapees were captured Saturday after an anonymous tip led police to the attic of a relative's home, but two others were still at large after nine inmates broke out of a maximum security area of the Yakima County Jail. The men broke through the ceiling of the four-story jail and used a rope made of bed sheets to climb down Friday evening, authorities said. Five were recaptured on the jail grounds, but four others got away. Saturday morning, officers got a tip that led them to a Yakima home where a sister of escapee Santos...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) -- Eight inmates escaped from a county jail Friday by breaking an upper floor window and climbing down a rope made of bed sheets, authorities said. Four were quickly recaptured before they could leave the jail grounds, said Will Paulakis, a Yakima County Corrections Department division chief. Authorities were searching for the other four, including a 20-year-old man scheduled to go on trial Dec. 5 on charges of second-degree murder, another charged with burglary, and two in custody on second-degree assault allegations. All were maximum security inmates, Paulakis said. Authorities were trying to determine how the eight...

PATNA, India, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Maoist rebels stormed a jail in eastern India, killing at least two people and freeing more than 300 prisoners, including many fellow guerrillas, police said on Monday. Police said the rebels entered Jehanabad town in impoverished and lawless Bihar state late on Sunday night in small groups, cut off power in areas around the jail and attacked the prison. They killed one jail guard and a member of a private landlord army. The rebels also abducted at least two dozen members of a private army of upper caste landlords who were jail...

KINGSTON — A prison guard calmly testified this morning how he fired 11 rounds from his revolver and his wounded partner's pistol during a brazen daylight escape by an inmate and his wife last month. Larry "Porky" Harris testified at a court hearing that he and correction officer Wayne "Cotton" Morgan were returning George Hyatte, 34, to a prison van after an appearance at the Roane County Courthouse. He said he didn't notice Jennifer Hyatte, 31, a former prison nurse and mother of three, come up to them in the parking lot until George Hyatte shouted, "Shoot him!" "As Cotton...

British forces have rescued two UK servicemen who were arrested by Iraqi police in the southern city of Basra. Official Iraqi sources say British tanks stormed the city's jail, but the Ministry of Defence says the men's release was negotiated. Basra governor Mohammed al-Waili said it was a "barbaric act of aggression". The arrests sparked clashes in which UK tanks came under attack. Two civilians were reportedly killed and three UK soldiers were injured. MoD officials insist they have been talking to the Iraqi authorities to secure the release of the men - who were reported to be working undercover....

BASRA, Iraq (AP) - British forces using tanks broke down the walls of the central jail in the southern city of Basra late Monday and freed two Britons, allegedly undercover commandos, who had been arrested on charges of shooting two Iraqi policemen. Witnesses said about 150 Iraqi prisoners also fled the jail. Violence flared earlier in the day as demonstrators hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at British tanks; at least four people were killed. The fighting erupted after British armor encircled the jail where the two Britons were being held. During the melee one soldier could be seen scrambling for...

In a major show of force, British soldiers used tanks to break down the walls of the central jail in this southern city late Monday and freed two Britons, allegedly undercover commandos, who had been arrested on charges of shooting two Iraqi policemen. About 150 Iraqi prisoners also fled as British commandos stormed inside and rescued their comrades, said Aquil Jabbar, an Iraqi television cameraman who lives across the street from the jail. Earlier Monday, demonstrators hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at British tanks, and at least four people were killed.

Tennessee authorities: "We are searching door to door" "We have not yet looked at the security video from the parking lot"

BEATRICE — An ex-Marine from North Platte tackled and restrained a prisoner attempting to flee the Gage County courtroom Thursday morning. The prisoner, Thomas Harms, 25, of Beatrice, was in court for a bond hearing in a domestic abuse and strangulation case. He had been in jail awaiting formal charges. As the complaint was read, Harms was verbally uncooperative and answered questions using profanity. County Judge Steve Timm gave Harms a chance to apologize, then ordered him to spend an additional seven days in jail for contempt. When Sheriff Jerry DeWitt and another officer tried to place him in handcuffs,...

Four "dangerous enemy combatants" have escaped from the main US base in Afghanistan, the US military has said.

FOUR prisoners described as dangerous enemy combatants escaped from the main American military base in Afghanistan yesterday, the latest embarrassment for commanders there who were already struggling with their worst military losses in four years.A huge manhunt, using helicopters and American ground forces, was under way after the four men were discovered missing from the heavily fortified prison at the Bagram air base, north of Kabul. American military officials would not comment on the identities of the men but an Afghan official said that they were all from Arab countries and suspected al-Qaeda members. Kabir Ahmed, the district chief of...

Uzbek riots work of militants - Russian diplomatic sources MOSCOW. May 14 (Interfax) - Friday's bloody riots in Uzbekistan were the work of well-armed militants from abroad, senior sources in the Russian Foreign Ministry said, Russian security sources have confirmed this. These diplomatic and military sources told Interfax that a large number of militants secretly gathered in the past few days at the juncture of the borders of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The militants included radical Islamists and Taliban members who had come secretly from Afghanistan, the sources said. The militants, who were well armed, formed units that moved into...

Dozens Reported Killed in Uzbekistan By BAGILA BUKHARBAYEVA, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 33 minutes ago ANDIJAN, Uzbekistan - Soldiers opened fire on thousands of protesters in eastern Uzbekistan on Friday after demonstrators stormed a jail to free 23 men accused of Islamic extremism. At least 50 people may have been killed in clashes with police and security forces, a protest leader said. ADVERTISEMENT Protesters fell to the ground as the troops surrounded the crowd of some 4,000 and started shooting outside the city's administration building, which had been seized by the demonstrators. An Associated Press reporter saw 10 people...

Seven prisoners, including a number convicted of murder, have escaped from a Pakistani jail by using their turbans for ropes. The prisoners broke through a toilet window in the jail in Machh, 50km (31 miles) south of the capital of Balochistan province, Quetta. They then scaled the high-security jail's perimeter wall with the turbans. Most of the convicts were serving terms of more than 20 years. A hunt is under way in nearby villages. Overcrowded Machh is Balochistan's leading jail and houses many criminals facing the death penalty. Abdur Razzaq Shah, the prison's deputy superintendent, told the Associated Press the...

Bloody end to Manila jail break Many Abu Sayyaf members are held at Camp Bagong Diwa Philippine police have killed at least 20 prisoners in an operation to end an uprising by Muslim militants at a maximum security prison near Manila.Two leaders of the Abu Sayyaf Islamic group were among those who died when police stormed the Camp Bagong Diwa jail on Tuesday, officials said. Lengthy bursts of gunfire were heard as police took control of the building. The disturbance started on Monday, when militants snatched weapons from guards and opened fire in an attempted escape. Three guards and...

MANILA, Philippines Mar 14, 2005 — Muslim-extremist inmates accused of committing some of the Philippines' worst terrorist attacks agreed to surrender Monday after a botched jailbreak left five people dead, including three guards, but the deal broke down when the inmates demanded food, authorities said. Early Tuesday, authorities threatened to storm the prison unless the inmates quickly surrender. "We have directed the ground commander to make the announcement that we are giving them 15 minutes to surrender their firearms or we will take the option of arresting the perpetrators of the crime," Interior Secretary Angelo Reyes told reporters. Crack troops,...

MANILA, Philippines — Police surrounded the facility at Manila's Camp Bagong Diwa, where authorities have detained 129 suspected members of the Al Qaeda-linked (search) Abu Sayyaf group, including several leaders.