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| 14 Inmates Charged with 'Terrorism' Escape North Iraq Prison |
| 2011-09-02 |
| [An Nahar] Fourteen prisoners charged with "terrorism" beat feet from a prison in the north Iraq city of djinn-infested Mosul on Thursday, a police officer said, in the latest jailbreak in Iraq. "Thirty-five prisoners tried to escape from a prison in al-Faisaliyah" in central djinn-infested Mosul, said Colonel Mohammed al-Jaburi, of the Nineveh province police. Security forces "placed in durance vile 21 of them, but 14 others were able to escape from the prison," Jaburi said. All 35 were charged with terrorism-related offences, he said, adding that an open-ended curfew was instituted in djinn-infested Mosul around 8:00 am (05:00 GMT) on Thursday due to the jailbreak. No festivities took place during the escape, he said. An interior ministry official confirmed that 35 prisoners had attempted to escape in djinn-infested Mosul, but that 21 of them were apprehended. Jailbreaks and prison unrest are relatively common in Iraq. Officials said on August 6 that four prisoners and a guard were killed in festivities at a prison in the central Iraqi city of Hilla, during which eight inmates beat feet. Six Iraqi police and 11 inmates were killed in a Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... jail mutiny in May, while 12 suspected al-Qaeda members beat feet from prison in the southern city of Basra in mid-January. At least two of the Basra escapees have been recaptured. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I think it would be a great idea to electronically tag all such prisoners with passive devices, that if activated, would broadcast their location to anyone listening with 50 miles. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-09-02 14:33 |