(Excuse me for a moment while I laugh inside: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...Ha!)

You'll remember that there are recurring Kandahar offenses, all of which are and have been hailed as 'turning points in the war'.  Well, a new one was imminent, and would have changed the calculus dramatically...  Plus the Taliban claim the number was 541, 106 Taliban Commanders.  Now personally I'm losing track about the Good Guys v. Bad Guys thing, and have just been tracking some of the sickest evidence that there is no 'winning', and that it is all so Kestone-Kops-esque that it's reached way past absurd levels.  Just think how many people on all sides are being destroyed over this farce.

"In a deft propaganda ploy, the Taliban gave a gripping description of the prison break in a statement they sent out to the news media ahead of any comment from the security authorities who were just in the process of discovering the tunnel.

Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said in the statement: “We have planned and worked on this for five months, and the tunnel is 360 meters long,” he said. “This was very important for us; we were trying to not leave anyone behind, not even one sick or old political prisoner.”

“Our mujahedeen worked in a very careful way” so as not to be discovered, Mr. Mujahid said. The tunnel wound under security check posts outside the prison and under a main highway."

Good God all-Friday.