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More Taleban Militants Freed In Jailbreak
Yesterday 29 July 2013
// Taliban militants have freed more than 240 prisoners in an assault on a prison in north-west Pakistan, officials say.
The prison houses hundreds of Taliban and militants from banned groups.
The attack appears to be part of a Taliban strategy to break jails instead of negotiating prisoner releases with government, the BBC's Ilyas Khan reports from Islamabad. //
22 July 2013
// Some of al Qaeda's most senior members were among the 500 inmates thought to have escaped before authorities regained control of the infamous prison on the outskirts of Baghdad in the early hours of Monday morning. //
April 2012
// More than 200 heavily armed Taliban militants travelling in several vehicles attacked the Central Jail in Bannu, Southern District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, releasing 384 prisoners in a pre-dawn assault on Sunday, officials said. //
Perhaps some of our 'aid' money could go toward building and running more secure jails?
// Taliban militants have freed more than 240 prisoners in an assault on a prison in north-west Pakistan, officials say.
The prison houses hundreds of Taliban and militants from banned groups.
The attack appears to be part of a Taliban strategy to break jails instead of negotiating prisoner releases with government, the BBC's Ilyas Khan reports from Islamabad. //
22 July 2013
// Some of al Qaeda's most senior members were among the 500 inmates thought to have escaped before authorities regained control of the infamous prison on the outskirts of Baghdad in the early hours of Monday morning. //
April 2012
// More than 200 heavily armed Taliban militants travelling in several vehicles attacked the Central Jail in Bannu, Southern District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, releasing 384 prisoners in a pre-dawn assault on Sunday, officials said. //
Perhaps some of our 'aid' money could go toward building and running more secure jails?
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16:22 Tue 30th Jul 2013
...or sold to them by unscrupulous arms dealers including Jews (and Brits).
// But details obtained from British government files by Haaretz show that in 2011, Israel requested weaponry and systems including radar equipment, electronic warfare material, fighter jet parts and targeting technology to export to Pakistan.
Between 2008 and 2012, Britain processed hundreds of Israeli applications for military equipment for use by the IDF or to be passed to other countries. //
// But details obtained from British government files by Haaretz show that in 2011, Israel requested weaponry and systems including radar equipment, electronic warfare material, fighter jet parts and targeting technology to export to Pakistan.
Between 2008 and 2012, Britain processed hundreds of Israeli applications for military equipment for use by the IDF or to be passed to other countries. //
From the Telegraph
// I've just got back from a fascinating briefing at the Pakistan High Commission in Singapore, during which a senior diplomat claimed that pro-Taliban fighters were attacking the Pakistani army with an advanced assault rifle that is normally only used by the SAS.
The diplomat added that MI6 agents and several foreign journalists had been shown the weapons in question but that the Pakistani army still had no idea who was providing the militants with such advanced hardware. //
// I've just got back from a fascinating briefing at the Pakistan High Commission in Singapore, during which a senior diplomat claimed that pro-Taliban fighters were attacking the Pakistani army with an advanced assault rifle that is normally only used by the SAS.
The diplomat added that MI6 agents and several foreign journalists had been shown the weapons in question but that the Pakistani army still had no idea who was providing the militants with such advanced hardware. //
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