Seven killed in al-Qa'eda jail breakout in Kabul

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(Filed: 17/12/2004)

Five Afghan prison guards and police and two prisoners have been killed in a jail break attempt by al-Qa'eda inmates at a prison in Kabul.

The interior ministry said that a shoot-out between security forces and two other prisoners was ongoing.

Prisoners may have planned to kill Idema, Bennett and Caraballo
The violence started in the same cell block where three American vigilantes are serving long jail terms for illegally detaining and torturing Afghans in a freelance war on terror.

Several police and prisoners were wounded in the ensuing siege of two prisoners who had fled from the block to a workshop inside the Soviet-era Pul-i-Charki prison compound on the outskirts of Kabul.

The prisoners killed by guards were Pakistani and Iraqi al Qa'eda members who had been arrested in Kabul by Afghan security forces, Abdul Salam Bakhshi, chief of the prison, said.

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Afghan Jail Siege Ends with at Least Nine Dead
Fri Dec 17, 2004 10:24 AM ET

Jail Break In Afghanistan

By Yousuf Azimy
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan soldiers killed two prisoners holed up in Kabul's Pul-i-Charki jail on Friday after a day-long siege that started when a group of inmates identified as al Qaeda killed their guards in an attempted jailbreak.

At least nine people, including five guards and police, were killed at the sprawling Soviet-era prison complex on the outskirts of the capital

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