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Al-Qaeda suspects may have been freed in the Fallujah attack
The attackers then headed to the nearby police station and freed 75 prisoners there, killing the guards and shooting open the cell doors, police Lt. Col. Jalal Sabri said. Witnesses said the ill-equipped compound defenders were clearly overwhelmed and outnumbered as insurgents moved with ease during the attacks. Some police were even unarmed at the time. "Their weapons were more powerful than our Kalashnikovs," police officer Earazan Abu Issa, who was outside the police station, told Reuters. Lt. Col. Sabri said the dead attackers were non-Iraqis and that two carried Lebanese passports. He also said the released detainees were criminals -- most arrested for murder or theft. "I suspect they were Arabs or Syrians or belonged to al Qaeda. They want to create instability and chaos," he said.Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-02-15 |
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