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| 22 Policemen Held after Iraq Jailbreak |
| 2012-03-25 |
| [An Nahar] Iraq jugged 22 coppers on Saturday after 19 inmates, including two men on death row, beat feet from a prison in the northern city of Kirkuk a day earlier, the local police chief said. "We are investigating 22 coppers who have been jugged, to find out about the escape of the terrorists," Kirkuk provincial police chief Jamal Taher Bakr told AFP, adding that local police were hunting for those on the run. Deputy Interior Minister Adnan al-Assadi told AFP on a visit to Kirkuk that authorities had opened an investigation into the prison break, and that security forces replaced in durance vile one of the 19 men in the Kurdish regional capital of Arbil. "Clearly there is some collaboration and negligence," Assadi said. "This escape could not have happened unless there were people who helped them." Assadi said the beat feet prisoners included 11 charged with terror-related offences, and that some of them had been held in jug since 2006. The group of 19 decamped al-Tasfirat prison in central Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , early on Friday morning. They apparently drugged guards and fellow inmates using narcotic-laced dates that put them to sleep before breaking out of the jail. The prisoners were alleged Al-Qaeda Islamic fascisti and fighters belonging to Ansar al-Sunna, a Salafist group that has claimed several attacks against US and Iraqi security forces. |
| Posted by:Fred |