“It’s an embarrassment of sorts for Canada: the Taliban springs more than 470 prisoners from a Kandahar City jail this week – a facility fortified by Canadians against such escapes.
Canada spent at least $4-million upgrading Sarpoza prison and training its staff after a previous jailbreak by the Taliban in 2008 that freed more than 800 inmates.
But late Sunday night and early Monday morning another 475 prisoners escaped Sarpoza through a secret 300-metre tunnel that the Taliban said it spent five months digging.”