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Mortar Attack on Baghdad Prison Kills 21 Detainees
A barrage of 18 mortars hit a Baghdad jail Tuesday, killing 21 prisoners, the U.S. military said. Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said the mortar strike hit the Baghdad Confinement Facility run by the U.S.-led coalition. He told a news conference that preliminary reports said all the casualties were prisoners.
He said he did not know if the prisoners were suspected criminals or "security detainees," Iraqis detained on suspicion of involvement in anti-U.S. violence or in the remnants of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime. He had no further immediate details.
| Interesting. Why shoot up a jail full of presumed insurgents, rather than their jailers? Could it be somebody knew something? |
Posted by: Steve 2004-04-20 |
