Thanks to Reuters

Hollywood will not likely be making a movie about this historic prison escape.

The “audacity of the operation” as the Telegraph’s Jeremy Kelly put it, has boosted the Taliban’s rap sheet and has made them even more infamous.

Their daring and unthinkable escape from prison via a 320 meter long tunnel is awe inspiring, despite the negative implications of the situation.  Amongst the whopping 514 escapees were 106 commanders who are expected to resume militant activities.

The master-plan of this operation goes something like this.

1) Kandahar, Afghanistan: 5 months of building a 1,050 foot tunnel to the main prison from the south side.

THE UNIMAGINABLE FEAT – “bypassing government checkpoints, watch towers and concrete barriers topped with razor wire”

2) At 11:00 pm,  prisoners started to crawl out through the tunnel in a period of 4 & 1/2 hours until 3:30 am.

AN INSIDE JOB? - probably, considering the prison guards ONLY noticed the escape 4 hours after the operation, the tunnel was dug using “modern technology,” and
no one knows who unlocked the cells besides speculation about duplicated keys.

It seems line a rather simple, well coordinated plan, that makes NATO and the Afghan government look even weaker than during the 2008 Taliban attack on the the prison where over 1000 prisoners escaped.  The ingenuity of this Great Escape sets it apart from an earlier escape attempt 3 years ago which featured the bombing the prison entrance.

This prison break may have just made it to the top ten most amazing escapes in history including

10. Maze Prison Escape (1983)

9. Alfred Hines (1960s)

8. The Texas Seven (2000)

7. Alfred Wetzler (1944)

6. Slowomir Rawicz (1941)

5. Escape From Alcatraz (1962)

4. Libby Prison Escape (1964)

3. Pascal Payet (2001)

2. The Great Escape (1943)

1. Colditz Escape (WWII)