Of course they did. An update on this story. "Afghanistan: Taliban 'had inside help' for jailbreak," from BBC News, April 26:
Afghanistan's justice minister has said the 488 inmates who escaped from Kandahar's main prison through a tunnel must have had inside help.
Habibullah Ghaleb told President Hamid Karzai that much of the blame for the Taliban-led breakout lay with local security forces and foreign troops.
Mr Ghaleb said the house where the 360m-long tunnel began was searched 10 weeks ago but nothing was reported.
Only 71 prisoners have been recaptured since a manhunt was launched on Monday.
The governor of Sarposa jail, Gen Ghulam Dastgir, said many of the escapees were likely to have fled to safe havens in neighbouring Pakistan.
The Taliban said 541 prisoners had escaped through the tunnel, and that 106 of them were commanders - four of them former provincial chiefs. 'Big blow'
The political wing of the jail, where the 1m (3ft) wide tunnel emerged on Sunday night, was like a compound, Gen Dastgir said, with prisoners free to move between cells and no locks on individual doors.
But Mr Ghaleb said there had been failings: the inmates of each cell should not have been able to access the room where the tunnel began, he said, while the "big convoy" of vehicles used to move the prisoners from the house should have been spotted from the prison.
"The mass escape of the prisoners from one tunnel indicates inside help and facilitation from the prison," he said in an initial report.
Mohammad Abdullah, one of the inmates at Sarposa who the Taliban claimed had helped organise the escape, said "friends" had managed to obtain copies of the keys to the cells beforehand, suggesting collusion by the guards.
Mr Ghaleb also criticised Canadian and US troops who have been responsible for security improvements to the prison. He asked how they had failed to notice the tunnel was being dug underneath their feet....
How much did they trust the word of Afghan authorities about the prison?
Are we going to see a remake of 'The Great Escape' in 20 years time, made in 'Dhimmiwood' (I can see the sign now...), celebrating this great achievement of the human spirit?
Inside help? No shit? You gotta be kidding me.
Sounds like something out of an episode of "Hogans Heros".
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Kareem Shora Arif Alikhan Well, boys and girls, today the fox is guarding the hen house. The wolves will be herding the sheep! Obama appointed two devout Muslims to homeland security posts.
Obama and Janet Napolitano appointed Arif Alikhan, a devout Muslim, as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in Kareem Shora, a devout Muslim, who was born in Damascus, Syria, as ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).
NOTE: Has anyone ever heard a new government official being identified as a devout Catholic, a devout Jew or a devout Protestant...?
Just wondering.
Devout Muslims being appointed to critical Homeland Security positions? Doesn't this make you feel safer already?? That should make our home land much safer, huh!?
Was it not "Devout Muslim men" that flew planes into U.S. buildings 9 1/2 years ago? Was it not a Devout Muslim who killed 13 at Fort Hood ?
Please forward this important information to any who cares about the future of our Country.
See http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/dhs.asp-- Don't you feel safer?
Why do you apply democratic para meters? Kill the the captured animals, especially if they are cnsidered commanders.
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Perhaps the BBC itself. They'd help the Talis.
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