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One afghan official saying it was started from a house 100 meters south of the jail. the taliban reveling in this, seemed to almost break the news of this event talking about a tunnel 320 meters long that took them five months to dig. also, saying that amongst the escapees are 106 of their senior commanders. >> police now say they have recaptured eight of the escapees. the taliban is taking responsibility for, quote, facilitating the jailbreak. in 2008 about 1,000 escaped from the same prison when militants set off a truck bomb. this may be the most contentious piece of u.s. policy after 9/1...

Find of interest. i find of interest. i don't think they -- they don't change our basic knowledge of the events that happened after 9/11. they do fill in details. at one point osama bin laden was so strapped for cash, after the 9/11 attacks, that he borrowed $7,000 which i think adds to our general understanding that, you know, osama bin laden didn't have, you know, a great deal of money at the time of the 9/11 attacks. we also get some portraits of what bin laden's henchmen were doing on 9/11, most of them were in the southern mega city of karachi and, you know, watching the events of 9/11 un...

Prisoner, from prisoners at guantanamo bay. what does that say to you about the argument for keeping guantanamo bay or for the success or failure of interrogation of these prisoners? >> i don't think it really says very much either way. ali, that's a very long discussion about, you know, how and why guantanamo should be closed. i mean, these are essentially the interrogations of prisoners. they don't shed much light on i think many of the legal issues surrounding the prison. they don't shed much light around the treatment of the prisoners. i haven't read all the documents, but from the summari...

Good to see you. we'll be right back with you. >> here are your top stories. more than 100 senior taliban commanders among nearly 500 other inmates who broke out of an afghan prison last night. officials say they escaped through a 1,000 foot underground tunnel. the taliban is taking responsibility for, quote, facilitating the prison break. syria now reportedly sealing off its border with jordan as government forces launch a massive military operation in daraa this morning. witnesses tell cnn government tanks have entered that city along with 3,000 syrian soldiers, we're told by witnesses t...

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