Taliban fighters in jail-break

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Taliban Fighters Flee After Jail Break
Saturday June 14, 2008

Up to 1,000 prisoners, including 400 Taliban militants, are on the run following an audacious breakout from a jail in Afghanistan. Fifteen security staff were reported dead after a well-planned attack on Sarposa Prison in Kandahar involving a car bomb, suicide bombers and rocket explosions.

The attack began with the blowing of the jail's entrance by a suicide bomber blowing up a lorry. Several dozen Taliban, armed with rocket propelled grenades and assault rifles then stormed the mud-built compound and started to free the prisoners which apart from militants included women and suspected criminals.
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Authorities have also launched a probe to find out if any officials were involved in the commando-style attack by several dozen Taliban fighters under darkness. Justice minister Mohammad Qasim Hashimzai said none of the prisoners had been re-arrested. "Government officials are busy finding out what really happened. We are trying to find out that if there was any inside help," Mr Hashimzai. "It was a very unprecedented attack and together with foreign forces, an operation has been launched to track down and arrest the prisoners."

Some high ranking Taliban field commanders were also among those who have managed to escape. The US military has handed over an unspecified number of suspected Taliban fighters to Afghan custody under a programme agreed last year to transfer all Afghan prisoners from American-run jails.

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Is this the biggest incident that the taliban have been accused of being involved in since 9/11?