[news] Inside the Taliban Jailbreak

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

by GRAEME SMITH - Globe and Mail

...[T]he Afghan forces stationed nearby [the prison] did not consider themselves capable of standing up to the Taliban that evening, as police in three outposts around the prison hunkered down behind their fortifications and refused to intervene...Local and foreign intelligence agencies also failed to understand glaring signs of trouble at the jail in the weeks before the attack, including a mass poisoning of prison guards just eight days beforehand. Taliban fighters warned local shopkeepers about an impending battle in the hours before they struck, but nobody passed the warning to the...authorities.  


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