If this story is correct, this strikes me as pretty bad news: Al-Qaeda militants seize control of Kabul prison wing by Marina McIntyre Times of London 02/27/06. Because Kabul has been supposedly the one part of Afghanistan that was safely under the control of the Karzai government, thanks to the presence of NATO troops.
McIntyre reports:
Hundreds of rioting prisoners led by al-Qaeda and Taleban militants were locked in a stand-off with security forces last night after seizing control of a wing of Afghanistan’s main high-security prison.
NI_MPU('middle'); As night fell the prison, on the eastern edge of Kabul, was ringed by soldiers and police, backed by tanks and armoured personnel carriers, to prevent a break-out. ...
The huge, run-down, Soviet-style prison was built in the 1970s, and thousands of Afghans who opposed communist rule were killed and tortured there in the 1980s. It now holds 2,000 inmates, including about 350 Taleban and al-Qaeda fighters. (my emphasis)
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