Some have painstakingly chipped away the bricks, others have hidden in laundry vans and the most daring have even escaped prison by helicopter.
But a report today highlights one jail where inmates may not need so much ingenuity. Staff at a Nottinghamshire prison regularly left the back gate open at night so they could park their cars within the secure perimeter wall.
– The Guardian
One of the most prominent figures in the British community in Afghanistan has been shot and killed in Kabul in an apparent robbery attempt.
Richard Adamson, 66, a former special forces commando who once helped the Mujahidin to fight the Soviet occupation, was murdered as he drove through the city yesterday afternoon in his Toyota four-wheel-drive car.
Mr Adamson was a manager for ArmorGroup, a British security company with 600 staff in Afghanistan. It has a contract to guard the American and British embassies in Kabul.
– The Times
August was supposed to be the month that everything would start to come good in Iraq. After four years of bloodshed and political chaos, the White House believed its joint strategy of beefing up its security operation, while encouraging the Iraqi government to undertake much-needed reforms, would finally deliver the elusive peace dividend that the Bush administration has been so desperately seeking since Saddam Hussein’s overthrow.
– The Telegraph