re: #255 ozbloke

500 Taliban prisoners tunnel out of prison

Nearly 500 Taliban prisoners have escaped from Kandahar prison in southern Afghanistan through a tunnel hundreds of metres long, Afghan officials say.

The Taliban said it was behind the huge jail break and that all of those who escaped were members of the militant Islamist organisation.

“A tunnel hundreds of metres long was dug from the south of the prison into the prison and 476 political prisoners escaped last night,” prison director General Ghulam Dastageer Mayar said.

Acting Kandahar police chief Shair Shah Yousufzai also confirmed the escape, saying: “Last night some political prisoners broke out of the prison and have escaped.”

Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi said his organisation was responsible for the mass break-out.

“Prisoners dug a 360-metre-long tunnel to the south of the prison,” he said.

More…

Would it be in bad taste if I started whistling the theme to The Great Escape?