Top Insurgents Escaped Prison Days After Iraq Took Over

It remains unknown how the four men were able to make their way out of the highly secured prison, but Iraq’s minister of justice, Dara Nurredin Dara, said Friday that the jail’s American-assigned warden, Omar Hamis Hamadi, was missing as well. “We were told that he was trustworthy and had a good reputation,” Mr. Dara said.

Like nobody saw this coming , How can you Expect to have Al Qaida members or Wannabe's , guarding Al Qaida Members ?

Guaranteed there will be more of this .

Consider it another reason to just put a bullet through their heads out in the Field !


The New York Times
BAGHDAD — Several high-ranking members of Iraq’s most violent insurgent group were among a group that broke out of a maximum security prison this week, Iraqi security officials said Friday.

The escape, which Iraq did not make public for 48 hours, came just five days after the American military handed the prison over to the Iraqi government.

The men, members of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, escaped from the Camp Cropper prison complex just outside Baghdad on Tuesday, five days after it was transferred to Iraqi control as part of American preparations to withdraw. The missing men include the group’s minister of finance, its minister of the interior and its minister of justice, the security officials said, without naming them. The standing of a fourth escapee was unclear.

Iraqi officials announced Thursday that four men who had been captured by American forces and held for about 15 months had escaped two days earlier, without specifying their importance.

On Friday, the United States military in Iraq declined to answer questions on the escape.

It remains unknown how the four men were able to make their way out of the highly secured prison, but Iraq’s minister of justice, Dara Nurredin Dara, said Friday that the jail’s American-assigned warden, Omar Hamis Hamadi, was missing as well. “We were told that he was trustworthy and had a good reputation,” Mr. Dara said.

Other Iraqi security officials said that several guards had failed to report to work since the escape.