Afghan Taliban escaped Recapture 65

 The massive security breach that allowed the Taliban to mind more than 480 afghans held at the largest prison in the South of the Afghanistan must have involved inside employees, Department of Justice said Tuesday, as security forces worked to reclaim escaped convicts.

Officials discovered Monday morning prison inmates - almost all activists Taliban - were absent from their cells and then found the tunnel through which they seemed to have made their getaway.

The Taliban, said the prison break of five months in the making, with diggers from the tunnel under a nearby House, while they took provisions for detainees receive keys so that they can open their cells during the night of the escape.

Government officials have begun to exhibit through the details of the escape Tuesday and blame the place. Minister of justice Habibullah Ghalib has sent an official letter to President Hamid Karzai recognizing that prison or likely guards officials acted as accomplices, but also said that Afghan and international security forces should have detected the story.

"Escape all prisoners tunnel... shows that the contributors inside the prison provided little opportunity," Ghalib said in the letter.

However, he also noted that Afghan police searched the compound which the tunnel were originating months approximately two years and a half before the break from prison and he said that the Canadian and American forces were responsible for the improvement of prison security. A full investigation is underway.

An intelligence officer who is involved in the investigation, General Tahir Mohmand, said they had warned the prison officials a number of times recently that they had reports that the Taliban provided a sort of operation involving prison.

"We had a few clues that the Taliban were occupied in a sort of plan to get their prisoners out," he said.

Details came from those who were captured.

Jan Samiullah, who had served 13 months of a sentence of 14 months, said he was awakened at midnight and escorted from the tunnel, which was lit and even had a pipe crossing that they were told pushed oxygen to help them breathe.

"When we are out of the tunnel they let us go and said ' now you can go.". Go where you want. "I moved around a bit, but I had not any place to go, and the soldiers are then me,"said Jan. He spoke of his cell at the detention Centre of the Agency of intelligence in Kandahar.

Office of the provincial Governor of Kandahar said troops have already taken 71 of those who escaped and two killed attempting to resist. The authorities have given biometric on each prisoner, which facilitates their identification, the Office of the Governor said.

But, even if a number of convicted prisoners is resumed, already weak provincial government is still under the blow to its image.

The escape from prison have also been less than two weeks after the police Chief of Kandahar was killed by a suicide attack inside his heavily defended compound Office.

"How can we trust or rely on a Government that can't protect the Chief of police in the police headquarters and cannot be the prisoners of the prison?" asked Islamullah Agha Bachir, who sells washing machines and other devices in the city of Kandahar. "Last night while we were eating dinner I told my two sons did not leave as much because I fear that when the Taliban morale is high, they attack more."