Kandahar prison: the tunnel circumvented the control points and goes directly to the wing housing held "political". Photo: AFP/Str/Getty ImagesNATO and Afghan forces launched a huge operation to try to resume 475 prisoners, almost all Taliban insurgents, who organized an extraordinary discussion mass prison by using a tunnel.
Officials have said that the detainees had escaped through the tunnel dug from a House wing of the prison where political prisoners are detained in Kandahar.
In an e-mail, Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said the tunnel was 1,050 m long (320 meters) and took five months to build, "bypassing enemy check posts and the main road from Kandahar-Kabul leading directly to the prison policy".
He said only three insurgents inside the prison had known the plot. They helped to ferry the prisoners from the prison in an operation for a period of four years and a half hours.
He said that by 3: 30 a.m. on Monday morning, the whole political wing of the prison was emptied of inmates. These had been conveyed "secure destinations" by a fleet of cars that had organized Taliban.
The message, written in almost perfect English, sings on the failures of the security forces: "the most amazing thing throughout the operation, as reported by respondents Mujahedeen, was that all the enemy forces inside the prison"which includes foreign invaders, have not noticed the results of the operation even four hours later and therefore has not released statements.
"Mujahideen had also placed a martyrdom research group near the prison, including the need did not arise because of inaction by the enemy."
Amir Mohammad Jamshad, the head of prisons in Kandahar, told the Guardian that the tunnel is a major undertaking by the insurgents, who have been unable to use any heavy machinery, because it might have drawn attention to their work.
Tooryalai Wesa, the Governor of Kandahar, said that prison security forces had "breached their duty", but the strenuous efforts were already underway to recapture prisoners.
"Some of the escaped prisoners were taken over by the forces of security during search operations and important operations were launched inside and on the outskirts of the city of Kandahar for the rest of them," said.
He also appealed to residents of Kandahar to call the tipoffs on a special hotline set up by the authorities escaped prisoners.
Despite his insistence that work resume as many prisoners would be done more easily by the biometric detailed records held on all men, including fingerprints and iris scans, discussion is a terrible for the efforts of the Afghan Government and international blow in key province.
A member of the Kandahar provincial Council, Hajji Hematullah, said that, although some prisoners may still be in the city, many others would have a direct line to the security of the Pakistani border.
Many hardened insurgents release comes just before the "season of combat" in the summer and could potentially reverse some of the gains of NATO during the winter in intensified operations to kill and capture insurgents as much as possible.
It is also the second time a considerable number of prisoners have managed to escape prison in three years only. In June 2008, the Taliban stormed the prison, with a suicide attack to break a hole in a prison wall. The operation allowed 870 inmates, including 390 insurgents, to escape.
The discussion was followed days of intense fighting in the outskirts of the city after that the insurgents fled to areas where they were immediately able to take up arms against the NATO forces.
The ruins of the prison was largely reformed and improved in an effort to prevent such an outbreak ever again.
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