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May 29, 2012

Crime

The Great Taliban Jailbreak

On the escape of hundreds of insurgents from Kandahar’s Sarposa Prison through a tunnel dug from the outside, and an unlikely suspect: the jail’s former warden.

Luke Mogelson GQ Jun 2012 25min Permalink