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Iraq
24 Iranian Prisoners Escape From Iraq Prison
2007-07-16
One presumes with inside help.
BAGHDAD - Twenty-four Iranians being held in an Iraqi prison near the border with Iran succeeded in escaping Saturday night, the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) reported Sunday.

VOI cited a security source in Wasit province, 180 kilometres south-east of Baghdad, as reporting the prison escape, and said that police had managed to recapture four of them.
These police will have their pay docked for failing to follow the plan.
The source, who declined to be identified, told VOI the 24 Iranians had broken through the prisonÂ’s main gate to make their escape. The report said a search for the escaped prisoners was underway and a state of siege declared in the area of Badra, 80 kilometres east of the Wasit capital of Kut.

The Iranian escapees were all being held for allegedly having entered the country illegally.
Posted by:Glenmore

#6  slese

I'm assuming that if they were really valuable, we would not have handed them to the Iraqis without monitoring them and if they were even moderately valuable the Iraqis would have kept them under someone better than team "D".
Posted by: mhw   2007-07-16 19:54  

#5  scheduled bus stop out in front of the Prison. Prisoners all had the right tokens..all legal like.
Posted by: RD   2007-07-16 18:42  

#4  Obviously an inside job. The usual suspects.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2007-07-16 15:36  

#3  So, MHW, had any good conversations with the Tooth Fairy lately?
Posted by: Slese Bucket3413   2007-07-16 14:28  

#2  although there are Iranian terrorism supporters in Iraq, these 24 may have been just some clueless dolts who thought they should worship in a Shia shrine and were told by their mullah to 'just do it'.
Posted by: mhw   2007-07-16 12:18  

#1  More likely someone left the gate open.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-07-16 10:52  

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