Taliban help hundreds tunnel of prison of the political wing

He said that security authorities in the early had discovered, that the prisoners from the political wing of the building were gone, and that the authorities had only found the tunnel.

National security officials said the tunnel was dug from the outside and went under the Kabul-Kandahar highway and then in the prison. There are conflicting reports on his length of 360 meters, the Taliban said police told journalists that it was more than 1,000 meters. Officials said, would it more definitive information later in the day.

The Governor of Kandahar, WESA Toorylai, had sharp criticism of the security forces. "This is absolutely the fault of the ignorance of the security forces," said Mr Toorylai. "It was not the work of a day, a week or a month activities, which was actually months of work they spent digging and their men free."

Mr Toorylai appealed to the public to inform authorities if they saw Taliban in their area.

It was the second time a large prison break in Sarposa prison, that it has the largest and the most dramatic prison in southern Afghanistan. The prison Taliban, captured numbers and many lower level Taliban in Zabul, Uruzgan and Kandahar including some senior Taliban after security guards work with the prison are accommodated. 13, June 2008 the Taliban orchestrated the release of 1200 prisoners, of whom 350 Taliban were members, in an attack, the 15 guards killed.

The escape comes at a critical moment in the Taliban fight in southern Afghanistan. Driven from their strongholds in the rural areas outside the city, and under pressure from a variety of NATO forces that have broken in the villages, they were able to maintain a presence, but nothing close she had the dominant role a year ago.

Again many able already will bring a large cadre of experienced fighters, of which, to refine their skills in the jail, the Taliban leadership could give the flexibility and resources send fighters into new districts are less NATO forces and strengthen their numbers closer to Kandahar.

"This negative impact on Kandahar the security situation", said Abdul Wahab Salihi, the Deputy intelligence chief in Kandahar. "I don't know how many among them were leaders or celebrities, but we are working and check their background, but if it a fire and you then more wood that it be wil more flames, so these are equipped with escape people in the fire add fuel."

A Taliban spokesman for the South and West of the country, Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, said that a total of 541 prisoners had escaped and that among them were 106 Taliban commanders. "Now they are all in ports of refuge," he said.

In a skillful propaganda ploy, the Taliban has a haunting description of prison break in a statement that it sent to the media before the comments by the security authorities, who were only in the process of discovery of the tunnel.

"Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman said in the statement:"we have planned and worked on these five months and the tunnel is 360 metres long,"he said."This was very important for us; "We tried not someone behind, not even one sick or old political prisoner can be."

"Our Mujahedeen worked in a very careful manner" so as not to be discovered, said Mr Mujahid. The tunnel under security check sores outside of prison and under a main road.

At 11 am Sunday three Taliban prisoners went, he said, were the only ones who knew, "from cell to cell, people wake up and lead each of them to the tunnel." More Taliban were the prisoners of the dirt and dust of the tunnel, to lead the behaved prisoners to the waiting vehicles. Also were on the side of Taliban fighters and suicide bombers in the case of the security forces woke up and there was one fight.

Mr Mujahid said "Fortunately we did not have, to use it". "The security forces knew not until dawn."

Tai Moor Shah reported from Kandahar and Alissa j. Rubin Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Turkish ship death hundreds of wounded from Libya for treatment - the Canadian Press

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ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish vessel evacuating hundreds of wounded from Libya achieved Aegean coast of Turkey on Tuesday in a field hospital encrypted, to provide emergency treatment.

Ferry-enabled hospital brought wounded people from the besieged Libyan city of Misurata and the rebel stronghold of Benghazi for treatment in hospitals to Western Turkey. More than 160 ambulances were on stand by mode.

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu Monday said that Turkey secured a temporary armistice in Misratah by intensive "telephone diplomacy" over the weekend, which allows the vessel to pick up the injured. Misratah, 125 miles (200 km) southeast of the capital Tripoli, had been largely cut off from the world for weeks.

Health Minister Recep Akdag said on Tuesday "Backup of ceasefire was critical" for the operation. It was only the safe passage of Turkish ferry in which and from which the Libyan ports allow to and is not part of the ceasefire, Turkey between nepotism and tries to give the opposition, officials said.

The ferry is 321 wounded and 108 other Libyans accompanying them. The boat is the medical care after Libya, including 29 foreigners, also from Greece, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Germany and Finland, and dozens of Turks back.

"Turkey a leading country in the provision of humanitarian aid around the world become," said Akdag reporters at the port of Cesme, as he expected arrival.

The Turkish Government financed the trip, and the Turkish Red Crescent and Islamic aid group IHH staff and supplies provided. Twelve Turkish jets and a frigate provided protection for the ferry.

Turkey has evacuated 25,000 Turkish workers and more than 6,000 foreigners from Libya as it succumbed to chaos.

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Killed hundreds in Ivory Coast City, such as conflict intensifies

The exact number of deaths was unclear. The United Nations said that 330 people were killed while aid agencies up to 1000 put the death toll. It was also uncertain, how many civilians were, and how many Vertragsschlie?ende were States, but Caritas, a Catholic charity whose Mitarbeiter visited the city, Duékoué, in the western C?te d'Ivoire, called it a "massacre".

The "City was full of bodies," said Patrick Nicholson, a spokesman for the charity. "they saw bodies in the city, in the Bush, mass graves."

Humanitarian workers not say who is responsible. But the United Nations said that more than 100 of Mr Gbagbo had been slain fighters, during approximately 200 by forces loyal to his rival, Alassane Ouattara, who acknowledged had been slain man by the United Nations, the African Union and other international organisations as the winner of the presidential election last year.

Mr Ouattara Government statement a responsibility for atrocities committed in any part of the country, to deny that its troops had discovered mass graves in other cities, were the result of the massacre of Mr Gbagbo forces.

However, the murders in question how much control over his powers has Mr Ouattara could call. If further investigation proved its participation in civilian deaths, it could Mr Ouattara reputation overseas, cloud, where it is felt, claim to the high moral in the debate with Mr Gbagbo.

During the crisis, civil largely in the hands of Mr Gbagbo forces, killings have come the most cause threats of prosecution by international prosecutors. Human rights groups have accused loyal forces also to Mr Ouattara from some extrajudicial killings, but neither side has to close in a single event this size have been involved. The United Nations had previously estimated that a total of about 500 people in the crisis, more than four months of tensions and sporadic violence had been killed.

Many of Mr Ouattara are former rebels in an uprising of the 2002 divided the country into two halves, fighters and they have come recently under his banner. The rebels have a history of violations of human rights and in particular on the edge of the political crisis had stopped.

Duékoué is one of the strategic cities of the country's cocoa-growing region, which they seized last week. A team of the International Committee of the Red there cross "saw a large number of bodies", said a spokeswoman, Dorothea Krimitsas.

"the scale of which were shocked," she said. "We have no exact information about who is behind this." "There were at least 800."

The conflict between Mr Ouattara and Mr Gbagbo has unleashed long-standing ethnic rivalries, particularly in the lawless Western regions. The Red Cross said the large number of dead, which it saw in the city on Thursday and Friday were apparently victims of "intercommunal violence". But it has not authorized responsibility for the killings.

With Mr Gbagbo refuses, step down - despite international condemnation, sanctions and a collapsing economy - the rebels across the country in a rapid sweep last week to back to the Presidential Palace and Mr Gbagbo residence in the nation city ahead geschobenAbidjan.

UN peacekeeping forces in Duékoué are stationed, but it was unclear which know, if available, would have their basis on the mass deaths may have.

"they are protection of the Catholic mission" where thousands of civilians, refuge have said a spokesman for the United Nations, Hamadoun Touré. "nothing tell them not me." If they knew that she would have told us, "he said." "In General when it fights, there are incidents." "Sometimes there are exaggerations."

In Abidjan, the commercial capital, gunfire and artillery rocked exchange the city on Saturday, as Mr Gbagbo stiff efforts to distribute resisted.

Mr Gbagbo loyalists captured the State TV channel, although its renewed the importance Mr Ouattara of military spokesman dismissed.

"What is us after the liberation of the people in Abidjan," said Capt. Leon Alla, the spokesman. "Not the r.t.i, the nothing more than propaganda," he said television Ivorienne referring to radio.

Still, the station was one of the most powerful weapons, Mr Gbagbo, in a non-stop campaign to start supporters with claims that he is the victim of a Western conspiracy, and both sides have led a fierce battle for this.

The streets in Abidjan were empty, widespread looting was reported, and residents remained are home, often on the ground stray balls, to avoid a Swedish staff of the United Nations killed on Thursday. "they still occur without interruption," said Ben Sylla, lives near the large Agban military base in the district d ' Adjamé. "Heavy weapons fire," Mr Sylla said, adding that dozens of families had taken refuge in a nearby school.

The speaker who said the United Nations, Mr Touré,: "there is cause." Then it calms down. "The situation remains unchanged." The United Nations reported that an of his patrols Friday from Mr Gbagbo forces, and fired back, was attacked several of the strongman beat soldiers.

Mr Gbagbo was probably in the Presidential Palace city, the site from its offices, or at his residence in the neighbourhood of Cocody. Residents reported hearing shots and artillery to both provide. His advisor was achieved not Saturday.

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