Taliban spokesman says 100 are commanders
(NEWSER) - Hundreds of prisoners, most of them Taliban fighters, escaped from an Afghanistan prison last night, and so far only 13 have been recaptured. Taliban militants staged the escape by digging a 1,050-foot underground tunnel into Kandahar's main prison and leading about 475 prisoners out, the AP reports. Al Jazeera puts the number of escapees at 540. The jailbreak illustrates the ongoing weakness of Afghan's government in the south; at this same prison in 2008, roughly twice as many prisoners broke out . More»
