A step-by-step guide.
Inspired by the kind of stuff you see in cartoons and simplistic prison escape movies, the Taliban dug a 1,050ft (320m) long tunnel under a Kandahar prison and then used it to breakout nearly 500 insurgents.
The tunnel was dug out from the outside over a period of five months and the emptying of the prison cells lasted four and a half hours – about the same amount of time it took guards to notice that all the prisoners in that wing are missing.
This is the second time the Taliban have successfully conducted a major prison breakout operation in just three years. The previous one took place in June 2008 when the Taliban used Tolkien-inspired tactics (a suicide bomber made a hole in a prison wall) to free 870 inmates.
Just wait until they hear about Prison Break and The Great Escape…
via guardian
