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How could a team of insurgents camp out in southern Afghanistan's most heavily guarded city, spend months tunnelling and hauling away tons of earth, and attract no notice? Canada spent millions of dollars upgrading the prison and training its staff; Canadian intelligence agents and commandoes are stationed only three kilometres away, at a camp shared with their U.S. and British counterparts. Why didn't anybody tip them off?...
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Others in the neighbourhood also disagree with the idea that locals were terrified by the jailbreakers.
“There must have been thousands of truckloads of earth coming out of that hole, and nobody said anything,” said Mohammed Sharif, who lives across the street from the prison. “It's because they are pro-Taliban.”
For COIN advocates, that is the most frightening possibility: that Afghans will reject foreigners’ efforts, no matter how many troops and dollars are involved.
“It's simple,” said Haji Mohammed Qassam, a tribal elder and former member of provincial council. “People don't like the government.”
