al-Qaeda Backed Militant's Free 140 After Storming Jail In Iraq.

   I wonder how the Bush administration is going to spin this story so far as our troop surge is concerned.

   It is reported from Reuters that quite a few dozen al-Qaeda led militants stormed into a jail in the  city of Mosul, Iraq and freed as many as 140 prisoners. This is the biggest prison break since the US went into Iraq.       Source

Reuters

As many as 300 militants led by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, attacked Mosul's northwestern Badoush prison just after sunset in the ethnically mixed city and overwhelmed police, who were forced to call the U.S. military for backup, officials said.

Hisham al-Hamdani, a member of the Mosul provincial government, said Abu Omar al-Baghdadi took part in the attack himself. The Islamic State in Iraq is a body set up by al Qaeda's Iraq wing and other Sunni militant groups in October.

   300 militants are a pretty good sized group and I'll bet that the local police went out and ate a few doughnuts while this prison break was going on. I say this because no one is sure if there was any contact between the police and the gunmen. If you are not sure if the police and the gunmen clashed, then they more than likely didn't. It would be kind of hard to miss, I would think.

 

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