'Fired Kandahar Police Chief Says Canadians Let Him Down', The Globe and Mail, 3 July 2008
EXCERPT: "Stripped of his uniform and placed under investigation after last month's spectacular jailbreak, Kandahar's former police chief lashed out Thursday [3 July 2008] at what he described as Canada's failure to help capture the hundreds of prisoners who escaped the shattered prison. Sayed Agha Saqib, dining on a lavish meal of lamb and chicken at his home in Kandahar city last night, asked why Canadian soldiers did not chase the fugitives running away from Sarpoza prison on June 13. 'My police didn't have modern weapons, and they didn't have night-vision goggles,' Mr. Saqib said. 'So why did you want us to go into those fields? It was the responsibility of NATO and the ANA [Afghan National Army].' A Canadian commander has said it was not his troops' responsibility to round up the confused mix of Taliban and criminals who straggled through the fields south of the prison in the hours after the jailbreak. The Canadians gave information about the fugitives' location to Mr. Saqib that night, saying it was a police matter."
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