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Title: Taliban tunnels 475 to freedom Post by: FooFa on April 26, 2011, 12:53:37 pm Quote U.S. troops under Canadian command Monday nabbed some of about 475 suspected Taliban who escaped from a supposedly high security prison overnight Sunday. The incident has thrown into question the sustainability of allied battlefield wins and places a very unflattering spotlight on the Afghan government. In what appears to be an inside job, convicts escaped quietly over several hours without a single shot being fired. Freed in small groups from scores of cells where they should have been locked in, the prisoners fled through a narrow, precarious 300-metre tunnel. On Monday the Taliban claimed supporters spent five months digging the escape route, which led under the main highway leading west from Kandahar City toward western districts patrolled by Canadian troops. The tunnel started under a house outside the prison walls. The mass exodus occurred as Ottawa's mission in southern Afghanistan was entering what looked like a relatively safe home stretch before the end of combat operations in July. It was in an area where Canadian patrols had been relatively free of insurgent activity for several months. Canadian soldiers privately expressed shock and frustration about the scale and audacity of the jailbreak. Among the hard questions being asked were: How did those breaking into the jail have access to a large number of keys required to open the cells? © Copyright (c) The Province Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/news/Taliban+tunnels+freedom/4674024/story.html#ixzz1Kf1PzrO9 Title: Re: Taliban tunnels 475 to freedom Post by: 44nutman on April 26, 2011, 01:07:20 pm Could be the premise for an unfunny version of Hogans Hero's.
Title: Re: Taliban tunnels 475 to freedom Post by: uselesslegs on April 26, 2011, 01:15:13 pm Schultz: Col. Hogan if you ever escape...
Hogan: Yeah? Schultz: Be a good fellow and take me with you. lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala If you add the la la la...it becomes Taliban. Title: Re: Taliban tunnels 475 to freedom Post by: Howey on April 26, 2011, 01:25:31 pm Why are we in a country that doesn't want us there fighting an enemy that isn't there?
Title: Re: Taliban tunnels 475 to freedom Post by: FooFa on April 26, 2011, 01:28:33 pm Wouldn't this require loud equipment at the least and then five months added to that...again makes me wonder if the mission is Creep. It doesn't add up that this could have been undetected to a logical mind. I believe the 2012 goal of withdrawal has already had a flag thrown on it by congress. After all this time I still hear that Kandahar is about the only place under an assembled order. Coalition forces pay off warlords for peace, that's been mentioned in mainstream news. Both in Iraq and there, locals who become part of security frequently betray and turn on the outsiders. The mission is that when they stand up we will stand down? Who is supposed to stand up? The innocent children who haven't been killed, the poor citizens who still live in the stone age, the paid off warlords...Meanwhile some of the troops who aren't helping the poppy production are playing preachers and further inflaming local culture.
http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/billions-of-afghanistan-war-dollars-missing/ http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2010/12/2010122182546344551.html http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/11/14/103393/afghan-business-model-connections.html#ixzz15ESRXQc0 (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ChPRoJicouw/TN8Xko2vsoI/AAAAAAAAAC8/MRQ9sMB_Iak/s1600/American_opium_poppy_field%255B1%255D.jpg) Title: Re: Taliban tunnels 475 to freedom Post by: lil mike on April 26, 2011, 08:04:44 pm Why are we in a country that doesn't want us there fighting an enemy that isn't there? Wasn't that true 3 years ago when you supported the war? |