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| Gunmen Raid Iraq's Abu Ghraib And Taji Jails | |
| 2013-07-23 | |
| [AlJazeera] Gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars raid prisons, as attacks elsewhere kill 13. Armed gunnies have launched an attack on the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, hitting the facility with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, officials say. Twelve people were killed in the attacks. The attackers hit the facility on the western outskirts of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... late on Sunday night, as well as another prison in Taji, north of the capital. The interior ministry said soldiers, police and attack helicopters had been dispatched to the prison to end the fighting and rioting by prisoners. Three soldiers and a police officer were killed at Abu Ghraib, along with three of the attackers; while at Taji prison, five people were killed, including two soldiers and an inmate. Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf, reported from Storied Baghdad, said the attacks appeared to have been staged in an attempt to free prisoners. "[Abu Ghraib prison] is now home to several high-ranking al-Qaeda prisoners, as is the prison in Taji," she said. Series of bombings The Islamic State of Iraq, the umbrella group for al-Qaeda in Iraq, has launched several similar raids in the past, aimed at freeing comrades being held in Iraqi prisons. Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf reports from Storied Baghdad Elsewhere in Iraq on Sunday, bombings and shootings killed at least 13 people, as the corpse count from a co-ordinated wave of late-night boom-mobileings and other attacks the day before jumped past 70, authorities said. The kabooms and prison raids were the latest in a relentless surge in bloodshed that has rocked Iraq since the start of the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan on July 10. The deadliest of Sunday's attacks came in the afternoon, when gunnies attacked a checkpoint manned by the Kurdish security forces known as Peshmerga near Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... killing five Peshmerga fighters. The oil-rich city of Kirkuk is 290km north of Storied Baghdad. During Ramadan, streets are often filled with people out shopping and relaxing in cafes in the evenings, suggesting the attackers aimed to hit as many civilians as possible. As the scale of the carnage from earlier bombings became clearer on Sunday, police reported that a total of 11 boom-mobiles went off in Storied Baghdad late on Saturday. More than 2,700 people have been killed in Iraq since the beginning of 2013, according to AFP figures based on security and medical sources.
"The security forces tossed in the slammer Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! some of them, but the rest are still free." One security official told Rooters on condition of anonymity: "It's obviously a terrorist attack carried out by al Qaeda to free convicted Death Eaters with al Qaeda." A simultaneous attack on another prison, in Taji, around 20 km (12 miles) north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , followed a similar pattern, but guards managed to prevent any inmates escaping. Sixteen soldiers and six forces of Evil were killed. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 A lesson to our Iraqi friends - if you hand out a death sentence, |
| Posted by: Bobby 2013-07-23 05:59 |