Iraq: Security forces killed in two prison attacks

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Last edited Mon Jul 22, 2013, 01:00 PM - Edit history (3)

Source: BBC

At least 37 people, most of them soldiers or police, have been killed in attacks in Iraq.

Gunmen attacked two prisons near Baghdad - Taji to the north and Abu Ghraib to the west - killing at least 25 members of the security forces.

A suicide bomber killed another 12 people in Mosul, ramming an explosives-packed vehicle into an army convoy.

It is unclear who was behind the attacks, but there has been a recent escalation in violence across Iraq.

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Al Qaeda militants flee Iraq jail in violent mass break-out


(Reuters) - Hundreds of convicts, including senior members of al Qaeda, broke out of Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail as comrades launched a military-style assault to free them, authorities said on Monday.

The deadly raid on the high-security jail happened as Sunni Muslim militants are re-gaining momentum in their insurgency against the Shi'ite-led government that came to power after the U.S. invasion to oust Saddam Hussein.

Suicide bombers drove cars packed with explosives to the gates of the prison on the outskirts of Baghdad on Sunday night and blasted their way into the compound, while gunmen attacked guards with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.

Other militants took up positions near the main road, fighting off security reinforcements sent from Baghdad as several militants wearing suicide vests entered the prison on foot to help free the inmates.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/22/us-iraq-violence-idUSBRE96J09I20130722

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Hundreds escape after insurgents launch coordinated assaults on 2 Iraqi prisons

BAGHDAD — Hundreds of Iraqi inmates escaped after insurgents armed with mortars and machines guns launched coordinated late-night assaults on two high-security prisons, sparking gun battles that left dozens of people dead, officials said Monday.

In a separate attack in northern Iraq, a suicide car bomber targeted an army convoy on Monday, killing 13 people, officials said.

The jailbreaks targeted prisons in Taji and Abu Ghraib, which are home to thousands of prisoners including convicted al-Qaida militants. Iraq has seen a surge of violence since April, and the assaults on the prison laid bare the degree to which security has eroded in the country in recent months.

Three lawmakers on the parliament’s security and defense committee said prisoners were able to escape from Abu Ghraib during the attack.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/suicide-car-bomber-attacks-army-patrol-in-northern-iraq-killing-12/2013/07/22/98bed67a-f29e-11e2-8464-57e57af86290_story.html

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23403564

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Abu Ghraib again.

[madokie]

1. "Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!"

Sir Walter Scott
Get the fucking dick and w to the Hague pronto!
this is all on their backs

[bemildred]

2. Breaking eggs is sooo much easier. nt

[Lasher]

3. At least 500 have escaped.

Up to 1,000.

[bemildred]

4. Al Qaeda affiliated, it says, too. nt

[Lasher]

5. Are you willing to update your OP to reflect this new information?

There's lots of news articles about it by now.

[bemildred]

6. I usually just build a thread when it's like that, to add links.

But I can add your link to the OP if you like? Or you can just post new stuff at the bottom like I do mostly.

[Lasher]

8. Here is a link to a good WaPo article

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/suicide-car-bomber-attacks-army-patrol-in-northern-iraq-killing-12/2013/07/22/98bed67a-f29e-11e2-8464-57e57af86290_story.html

[bemildred]

7. Hundreds escape in deadly Iraq prison raids

BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of Iraqi inmates escaped after insurgents armed with mortars and machines guns launched coordinated late-night assaults on two high-security prisons, sparking gun battles that left dozens of people dead, officials said Monday.

In a separate attack in northern Iraq, a suicide car bomber targeted an army convoy on Monday, killing 13 people, officials said.

The jailbreaks targeted prisons in Taji and Abu Ghraib, which are home to thousands of prisoners including convicted al-Qaida militants. Iraq has seen a surge of violence since April, and the assaults on the prison laid bare the degree to which security has eroded in the country in recent months.

Three lawmakers on the parliament's security and defense committee said prisoners were able to escape from Abu Ghraib during the attack.

http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Hundreds-escape-in-deadly-Iraq-prison-raids-4678784.php

Another successful American democracy project.

[John2]

9. They are

all new recruits for Jihad. I expect some of them will be going to Syria.

[bemildred]

10. That was my assumption.

Although I understand things are heating up in Iraq again too, or the Syrian war is spreading, as expected, if you prefer.

But it seems clear the Syrian opposition needs fresh cannon fodder, things not going well.

[bemildred]

11. Prisons, army, mosque targeted in Iraq; nearly 50 dead

(CNN) -- Violence exploded in Iraq over the past 24 hours near Baghdad and in Mosul, leaving nearly 50 people dead and hundreds of al Qaeda-linked militants free in a massive jailbreak, authorities said Monday.

Security forces battled militants outside two major penitentiaries near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and thwarted prison breaks, the Justice Ministry said Monday. The incidents occurred Sunday night at Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, and al-Taji prison, north of the capital.

The Justice Ministry said well-armed "terrorist groups" attacked the prisons simultaneously using mortars. They also carried rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns, and were accompanied by suicide bombers and car bombs, the ministry said.

The attacks coincided with riots by inmates who set fires inside the prisons, the ministry said. At least 21 inmates and at least eight prison guards were killed, it said, while 25 inmates and 14 guards were wounded.


http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/22/world/meast/iraq-violence/?hpt=hp_t3