KABUL, July 12: Hundreds of US and Afghan troops searched on Tuesday for four Al Qaeda militants who escaped from the main US military detention centre in Afghanistan in what is a major embarrassment for American forces.
A police officer and senior Afghan government official in Kabul had earlier said one of the escapees from Bagram Air Base had been recaptured but local Afghan authorities said this was not so.
Bagram district chief Kabir Ahmad said a man arrested at a mosque north-west of the base on Tuesday was not one of the escapees.—Reuters
