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Former inmate recalls daring escape from Auschwitz (AP)

July 20th, 2010

**WITH STORY BY MONIKA SCISLOWSKA POLAND ESCAPE FROM AUSCHWITZ** In this May 11, 2010 photo Jerzy Bielecki is seen presenting photos of him in 1944, left, and Cyla in 1945, in his home in Nowy Targ, southern Poland. 60 years ago Bielecki, then an Auschwitz Birkenau prisoner, escaped from the death camp with his Jewish girlfriend, Cyla Cybulska. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)AP - With every step toward the gate, Jerzy Bielecki was certain he would be shot.


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11 escape as Taliban attacks aid Afghan jailbreak (AP)

July 18th, 2010

An aerial view from a US helicopter in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, July 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - A smuggled bomb exploded at a western Afghan prison just as Taliban fighters staged coordinated attacks on four police checkpoints early Sunday, allowing 11 inmates — including suspected…

2 killed, 11 escape in brazen Afghan jailbreak (AP)

July 18th, 2010

An aerial view from a US helicopter in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, July 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - A guard and a prisoner were killed and 11 inmates escaped early Sunday after explosives were smuggled in and detonated at a prison in western Afghanistan.


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Mission impossible: Escape from Europe (AP)

April 19th, 2010

The first of three KLM passenger planes headed towards New York takes off from Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday April 19, 2010. European transport officials have carved up the sky, creating three zones to break the flight deadlock caused by a cloud of volcanic ash flowing from Iceland over Europe. France said Monday that European countries can resume airline traffic in designated 'caution zones' where the threat of ash is considered less dangerous. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)AP - Stranded travelers are piling into buses, trains and high-priced taxis in a frantic scramble to accomplish an increasingly tricky mission: Escape from Europe.


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