BASRA: A total of 13 members of al-Qaeda armed group managed on Friday to escape from a detention center in Basra despite the tough security measures, according to a lawmaker from the National Alliance.
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"Thirteen terrorists managed to escape on Friday (Jan. 14) from a special detention center at the Presidential Palaces Compound in Basra," MP Hussein Taleb al-Mansouri told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"The detainees had confessed to implementing several terrorist operations," he added, noting that they managed to escape despite tough security measures, calling for starting an investigation in this regard. |