Over the past couple of weeks almost 2,000 inmates, including “hundreds of terrorists,” have escaped from prisons in Iraq, Libya, and Pakistan. The series of ultra-violent, highly organized attacks has the US scared, al Qaeda celebrating in Iraq, and a whole load of embassy staff with a week off.The party started with a bang. On the evening of July 21, suicide car bombs near Baghdad Central Prison (formerly known as Abu Ghraib) detonated, blasting open the gates. Military-grade mortar and rocket attacks followed and suicide-vested militiamen streamed into the prison. The assault was highly coordinated—while the apparent jihadists started freeing their brothers from Iraq’s nastiest correctional facility, others set up positions on the road outside, shooting police and security forces as they arrived on the scene.
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Video taken by the Taliban as they broke into Bannu city jail in 2012. The walls of the prison fell quickly, and fighters ran inside. One used a megaphone to call for specific prisoners by name, and after a gunfight that led into the early hours of the following day, 248 prisoners had been freed. None were high-level Taliban leaders, but at least 30 were “hardened” Taliban foot soldiers. The breakout was near identical to another last year, in which 400 prisoners were freed in the nearby city of Bannu.
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