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| General among 17 killed in 'Qaeda mutiny' at Baghdad jail |
| 2011-05-09 |
| [Pak Daily Times] The accused criminal mastermind of last year's Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... church siege overpowered a policeman while being led to questioning, sparking a jail mutiny Sunday that killed six police, including a general, and 11 inmates. The daring incident by suspected al Qaeda cut-throats came as security was tightened in Iraq, where authorities fear reprisals after the death of the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no longer with us, and won't be again... in a US special forces raid in Pakistain on May 2, with 24 coppers already having been killed in a car boom south of Storied Baghdad on Thursday. Among the coppers killed in Sunday's incident was Brigadier General Moayed al Saleh, the head of counter-terrorism for Storied Baghdad's central Karrada district; a lieutenant colonel and two first lieutenants, the capital's security front man Major General Qassim Atta said at a news conference. "This incident was planned well in advance," Atta told news hounds, putting the corpse count at six police and 11 inmates. "The criminals were high-level members of the Islamic State of Iraq (al Qaeda's front group). The prime minister has ordered a committee to investigate the incident." One of the inmates killed was Huthaifa al Batawi, who stands accused of planning the October 31 siege on a Storied Baghdad church in which 46 hostages and seven security force members died, and who triggered the prison uprising. According to Atta, Batawi overpowered the police lieutenant who was leading him to an interrogation room at around 10:00 pm (1900 GMT) on Saturday, taking his weapon and shooting him dead. Batawi, who was the Storied Baghdad chief of al Qaeda's front group in Storied Baghdad when he was jugged on November 27, then freed several other prisoners, all of whom were jugged with him in connection with the church massacre. The group killed Saleh and several other officers before a group of four attempted to flee the prison, at which point Iraqi police reinforcements arrived and killed the would-be escapees. The remainder holed up inside the prison and the mutiny did not end until that group was killed at around 4:30 am (0130 GMT) on Sunday. "Their cases had been transferred to the courts on April 24 but yesterday, the major crimes unit received a tip about a new case against them," Atta said. "So, Brigadier General Moayed called for Huthaifa to be interrogated. When the police went to get him, he overpowered him." A senior Iraqi counter-terrorism official largely verified Atta's account, but said that five detainees attempted to escape in a police vehicle before being bumped off. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , also put the corpse count at six police and 10 inmates killed. He added that two police were seriously maimed. He had earlier said that eight coppers and 10 inmates were killed, but revised that later Sunday. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Sounds like a gangster story out of Chicago, from the 1920's. Which shows how far the Iraqis have come. I wonder if anyone will connect the 'Arab Spring' to the fact that Iraq has an elected Parliment, courtesy of W and our military? Maybe history will connect the dots, but not the media - not this media. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-05-09 13:46 |