Emails sent by an Arizona college were released due to a court order regarding the Tucson shooting rampage. The emails show that campus police have already been worried about the behavior of the suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, and that they were concerned he was armed.

One of the emails from Pima Community College, the Arizona College Loughner attended, showed that one of the campus police officers contacted federal firearms officials asking if Loughner owned firearms. The Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives officials replied to the email and said they had no records on Loughner.

Months before the shootout on January 8, the exchange of emails between the Arizona College and the police indicate that the school knew about Loughner’s disturbing and bizarre behavior. The school expelled Loughner in September 2010.

According to the emails that were released on Thursday, the college alerted local police more than five times regarding Loughner’s behavior while he was still in school. One of the reported cases is the February 2010 incident wherein Loughner made uncalled-for comments in class. He reportedly talked about abortion, strapping bombs to infants, and killing people.

During the same month, a student told college authorities that she saw Loughner place a knife on his desk while in class. The event prompted a professor to warn that the school must do everything to remove Loughner from the campus.

Loughner is the primary suspect for open shooting on Congresswoman Giffords and the killing of six people. He has pleaded not guilty to all 49 charges which include two counts of murder of a federal employee.

An Afghan official said that at least 400 inmates escaped from the main prison in Kandahar through an overnight tunnel, Monday. Kandahar is in the southern part of Afghanistan. Most of the escaped prisoners are Taliban insurgents.

Kandahar is the focus of international effort to defeat insurgency, and the colossal jailbreak in the city is a reminder that Afghanistan can still easily be thwarted in the south. This is despite the arrival of international funding, troops, and advisers.

The escape took place even after the 1,200-inmate Sarposa Prison tightened and upgraded their security procedures. The Afghan government worked hard to improve security in their prison cells after the 2008 Taliban attack which caused the escape of 900 prisoners.

On Sunday night, an average of 476 prisoners escaped thru a dug tunnel between the prison and the outside world. They then disappeared into the city even before prison officials found out they were missing. Ghulam Dastagir Mayar, prison supervisor, said that the majority of the missing prisoners are Taliban militants.

Zabiullah Mujahid, Taliban spokesman, said that allies of the imprisoned insurgents dug the tunnel over five months, working under the prying eyes of the government. On Sunday night, the tunnel reached prison cells, freeing the inmates. The inmates were led by three prisoners who were informed of the plan months back.

The Sunday’s escape is more thought off and less brutal than the 2008 attack wherein two suicide bombers crashed a tanker truck laden with explosives straight to the prison gate.