'1,000 inmates escape from Afghan prison after blast'

'1,000 inmates escape from Afghan prison after blast'

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The massive explosion, heard across the Afghanistan's second-largest city, destroyed the gate and a police checkpoint, burying guards under rubble and killing scores.

Witnesses said as many as 30 motorcycles then raced forward, carrying armed men firing rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns and AK-47s. A second hole was blasted in a rear wall of the prison, the largest such facility in southern Afghanistan.

During the ensuing 20-minute battle inside the prison and in the city's west side, hundreds of prisoners were able to flee.

Wali Karzai, president of Kandahar's provincial council and the brother of President Hamid Karzai, told local reporters a short time later that all the inmates had fled. Late into the night, however, it remained unclear exactly how many escaped from the prison, which houses almost 1,200 inmates, including about 400 Taliban militants.

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Regardless of what many think, Afghanistan is not stable. Such a brazen attack by the Taliban.

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Isn’t liberating the bastille one of the first things you do after a revolution? It’s starting to look like Pak may be the next target, even before Iran, and it makes strategic sense. Cover as many flanks as you can.

That is what you call a prison break... - 1200 freed in one go....

What an embarassment!

Looks like Afghanistan will slip out soon into the hands of Taliban.