Kandahar prison: the tunnel bypass checkpoints and went directly to the wing housing "political" inmates. Photo: Str/AFP/Getty ImagesIn Afghanistan and in the NATO forces breakout have staged a huge operation to try, 475 prisoners, almost all of them reconquer insurgent Taliban, launched an extraordinary mass prison through a tunnel.
Officials said the prisoners were escape through the tunnel dug out of a House of the wings of the prison in the political are being held prisoners in Kandahar.
In an e-Mail Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said the tunnel was 1,050 ft (320 m) long and had five months to construct, "bypassing enemy check posts and Kandahar-Kabul road leads directly into the political prison" taken.
He said only three insurgents in the prison of the plot have been known. They helped the prisoners from the jail in a four and a half hour ferry.
He said that the entire political wing of the prison of inmates has been emptied by 3. 30 pm on Monday morning. They had off to "safe destination" was promoted by a fleet of vehicles organized by the Taliban.
The message, written in near-perfect English, crowed about the failures of the security forces: "The most amazing thing informers reported during the operation, such as Mujahedin, that all enemy forces within the prison, even four hours later and therefore not released any statements not noticed including foreign invaders, the results of the operation."
"Mujahideen had places also a martyrdom seeking group in the vicinity of the prison, which need not by the inaction shown by the enemy occur."
Any heavy machinery use Amir Mohammad Jamshad, the head of the Kandahar who said prisons, the guardian, which was tunnel a challenge by the rebels, who have not been able, since it could have attention to their work.
Tooryalai WESA, the Governor of Kandahar, said that the prison security forces but strenuous efforts had "failed in their duty", in progress, to recapture the prisoners.
"Some of which operations was recaptured the escaped prisoners of the security forces during the scan, and huge operations launched inside and on the outskirts of Kandahar for the rest of them," he said.
He called residents in Kandahar, call in the Tipoffs of the escaped prisoners to a special hotline set up by authorities.
Despite his insistence that the task of the recovery of so many prisoners detailed biometric records would be facilitated by the instead of all men, including fingerprints and IRIS scans, the breakout is a major blow to international and Afghan Government efforts in the central province.
A member of Kandahar's provincial Council, Hajji Hematullah, said that although some prisoners in the city can still be, many others would have made a direct line for the security of the Pakistani border.
The exemption of so many hardened rebels comes just before the "fighting summer season", and could potentially reverse some of the profits, the NATO of the winter in increased operations to kill and capture insurgents as many as possible made.
It is also the second time huge numbers of prisoners is managed to escape from the prison in just three years. In June 2008, the Taliban stormed the prison with a suicide bomber to break a hole in a prison wall. The operation allowed 870 inmates, including 390 insurgents, to escape.
The outbreak was followed days, intense fighting on the outskirts of the city after fled the insurgents to areas, they could immediately take arms against NATO troops.
The crumbling prison was comprehensively reformed and improved in an effort to prevent an outbreak happened again and again.
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