Looping Back To Failed War #1

by dday

Meanwhile, in that other, forgotten war:

About 870 prisoners escaped during a Taliban bomb and rocket attack on the main prison in southern Afghanistan that knocked down the front gate and demolished a prison floor, Afghan officials said Saturday.

The police chief of Kandahar province, Sayed Agha Saqib, said 390 Taliban prisoners were among those who fled the prison during the attack late Friday.

NATO’s International Security Assistance Force put the number of escapees slightly higher, at around 1,100, according to spokesman Brig. Gen. Carlos Branco. He conceded that the assault was a success.

If the Taliban is able to pull off mass-scale operations like this, and now has hundreds of fighters willing to do more, shouldn’t this be a signal that Afghanistan needs dire attention, and not by browbeating NATO partners but a legitimate commitment. The Taliban almost assassinated Hamid Karzai a couple months back, and now this. They bombed out a wall with a truck at the front gate, had a suicide bomber blow himself up at the back wall, and then rockets fired from INSIDE the prison courtyard, all at the same time. They reportedly had minibuses waiting for the escapees.

Heckuva job.

…four U.S. soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan yesterday. Sad and horrible.

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