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10/11/2003 Archived Entry: "A Thin Lizzy song comes to mind...."
A Thin Lizzy song comes to mind....
I think it's about time we start asking just who we've anointed as 'friends' in Afghanistan.
Authorities were searching for more than 40 Taliban prisoners — including several commanders — who escaped from a high-security prison in southern Afghanistan by digging a tunnel, a provincial governor and two other government officials said Saturday.Several former Taliban commanders and the brother of former Taliban defense minister Mullah Ubaidullah were among the escaped convicts who disappeared without detection late Friday from a prison in Kandahar, said Yousaf Pashtoon, the governor.
"This is a very serious incident," he said, adding that a province-wide search has been launched for the prisoners.
Kandahar is the stronghold of Afghanistan's former hardline Muslim Taliban regime.
Replies: somebody speaks up.
That story reminds me of a news item that appeared for a few hours on the AP News Service back in April and then quickly disappeared from everyone's radar screen:
Suspects in USS Cole Attack Escape Prison:
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(AP) - Yemeni authorities were hunting for 10 of the main suspects in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole after they escaped from prison Friday, officials said. The fugitives, including chief suspect Jamal al-Badawi, had been jailed in the port city of Aden since shortly after the destroyer was bombed, killing 17 American sailors.
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Makes you wonder if that was "The Great Escape" or if some of their jailors just gave them the keys.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 10/12/2003 09:35 AM NY
