In case you missed it, watch last night’s FRONTLINE, Kill/Capture: Inside the military’s extraordinary secret campaign to take out thousands of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters.
It was four in the morning before the guards at Kandahar’s Saraposa prison even knew anything was wrong. By then it was too late: the last of at least 476 prisoners, most of them Taliban and some of them experienced commanders, had escaped the facility through a more than 1,000-foot-long tunnel painstakingly dug into the compound over the course of five months.
(via Taliban ‘Great Escape’: DIY Tunnel Leads to Massive Jailbreak | Danger Room | Wired.com)
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