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Al Qaeda terrorists escape prison

Posted 24 Sep 2009 in jihadists, terrorism

Another reason why we should not bring al-Qaeda terrorist detainees from Gitmo onto U.S. soil:

BAGHDAD — Sixteen prisoners, including leaders of Al Qaeda and other extremist groups who had been sentenced to death, escaped from a prison in northern Iraq, in what officials described as a brazen breach of security that prompted a manhunt across a swath of the country on Thursday.

Iraqi officials imposed a curfew and, with American search dogs and aircraft, began a massive search after the prisoners slipped out of a detention center in the city of Tikrit just before midnight on Wednesday, officials said.

One of the prisoners was captured Thursday in an orchard about 12 miles away, but the others remained at large, prompting tightened security at checkpoints as far away as Baghdad, roughly 90 miles to the south.

Mutashar Hussein Allewi, the governor of the region, Salahadin, north of Baghdad, said in a telephone interview that there was “a high probability of collusion” by prison officials. The region’s director of counterterrorism was suspended pending an investigation, as were the head of the prison and several other officials.

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