8. Riot At Qala-i-Jangi
Following 9/11, the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan captured 1,000 members of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda group in November of that year. Soon, some of the inmates managed to smuggle grenades inside and staged a suicide attack killing two guards. But that wasn’t the worst of it. Two CIA officers began interrogation on November 25th, when suddenly one of the Talibans snatched an AK -47 and killed a guard. Thus began an all-out war between the prisoners and the Northern Alliance fighters. American and British Special Forces were brought in but the prisoners kept resisting successfully. The soldiers tried setting the prison on fire by pumping in oil, it failed. After that Northern Alliance came up with a plan of filling the basement with freezing irrigation water. When faced with drowning alive, the prisoner decided to surrender. Out of 1000 prisoners only 86 of them had survived the riot.
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