Huge Afghanistan news: major prison break

Just before the Tim Russert news, MSNBC reported that suicide bombers attacked the main prison in Kandahar, and that this resulted in a mass prison break, with all or nearly all prisoners escaping, including hundred of Taliban members.

From their website below:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

Hundreds escape in Afghan prison attack
Blast targets prison gate, Taliban militants reportedly attack guards
BREAKING NEWS

MSNBC News Services
updated 12:36 p.m. PT, Fri., June. 13, 2008
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Nearly all of an estimated 1,150 prisoners, including some 400 Taliban inmates, fled a prison in Kandahar on Friday after Taliban insurgents blew open the main gate, officials said.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Taliban also fired several rockets at various parts of the mud-built prison in the province, a stronghold of the ousted Taliban movement.

A suicide car bomb targeted the prison gate, followed by an attack from Taliban militants, NBC News reported.