Related: Occupation Iraq: Jail Break Update
"Fuel truck explodes by airport in Iraq; Conflicting reports of blast are given" by Hamed Ahmed, Associated Press | October 5, 2009
BAGHDAD - Also yesterday, Iraqi police announced one Al Qaeda-linked fugitive was killed and another was arrested in a raid just west of Samarra, about 30 miles south from where they made a stunning jailbreak late last month.
Also see: Occupation Iraq: Government Death Squads
The two were among five Al Qaeda prisoners who had been sentenced to death to break out of a makeshift jail in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit. The arrest brings to at least nine the number of prisoners recaptured. The one fugitive killed yesterday was resisting arrest, a police said.
Then why is the entry wound in the back of the head?
The escape was an embarrassment for Iraqi authorities as they struggle to upgrade detention facilities before absorbing thousands more inmates from US forces by next year....
More than Saddam had in prison.
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Also see: Occupation Iraq: Abu Ghraib Uprising
