{"id":8991,"date":"2011-04-25T10:41:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T14:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8991"},"modified":"2011-04-25T10:42:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T14:42:46","slug":"taliban-tunnellers-re-enact-the-great-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/25\/taliban-tunnellers-re-enact-the-great-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban tunnellers re-enact the &#8220;Great Escape&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1380299\/Insurgents-tunnel-Afghanistan-jail-free-hundreds-Taliban-commanders-blow-allied-forces.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> is going to hurt:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Taliban has staged a jail-break from a high security prison in Afghanistan, freeing 541 prisoners through a network of tunnels that took five months to dig.<\/p>\n<p>In scenes reminiscent of war film <em>The Great Escape<\/em>, insurgents constructed a 1,050-foot (320m) route into Sarposa Prison, in Kandahar.<\/p>\n<p>Diggers finally broke through into the site last night and hundreds of prisoners, including around 100 Taliban commanders &mdash; streamed through the tunnel to freedom over four-and-a-half hours.<\/p>\n<p>They were met by a fleet of cars which whisked them away to freedom. The breakout was completed at around 3.30am.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Afghan_Jail_Break.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"AFGHANISTAN-PRISON\/ C\" width=\"634\" height=\"443\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Afghan_Jail_Break.jpg 634w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Afghan_Jail_Break-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Afghan_Jail_Break-480x335.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is going to hurt: The Taliban has staged a jail-break from a high security prison in Afghanistan, freeing 541 prisoners through a network of tunnels that took five months to dig. In scenes reminiscent of war film The Great Escape, insurgents constructed a 1,050-foot (320m) route into Sarposa Prison, in Kandahar. Diggers finally broke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[218,343,220,219],"class_list":["post-8991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-military","tag-afghanistan","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-nato","tag-taliban"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2l1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8994,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions\/8994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}