Al-Qaida claims Iraq prison raids which freed hundreds of inmates

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/23/al-qaida-iraq-prison-raids-abu-ghraib

Al-Qaida in Iraq has claimed responsibility for deadly raids this week on Abu Ghraib and Taji prisons which freed hundreds of prisoners, including some of its followers.

The statement, issued in the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, was posted in a jihadist forum on Tuesday.

The group called the prison assault Operation Conquering the Tyrants and said it involved 12 car bombs and help from prisoners who had obtained weapons on the inside.

It claimed to have freed hundreds of prisoners, including more than 500 fighters.

Iraqi authorities said on Monday that hundreds of inmates had escaped from Abu Ghraib but a simultaneous raid on Taji had failed to free any prisoners. Both prisons are on the outskirts of Baghdad.

so hundreds from one but none from the other is that a bragging point? weapons gained inside somebody was asleep at the door.

not something Americans want to read after all the blood and bucks wasted by the war that Cheyney/Bush built, yes they did build that. 

hard to know where Iraq would be if not for their interference, but thousands of American and allied troops would probably still be alive, families not broken and mourning.

"The number of escaped inmates has reached 500. Most of them were convicted senior members of al-Qaida and had received death sentences," Hakim al-Zamili, a senior member of the security and defence committee in parliament, told Reuters. "The security forces arrested some of them, but the rest are still free."

The military-style assaults on the prisons come as Sunni Muslim militants are regaining momentum in their insurgency against the Shia-led government.

In recent months, Sunni insurgents, including the al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq, have been striking on an almost daily basis against Shia Muslims and security forces, among other targets.

not really turning out like they told us it would, and we didn't get the oil either, maybe a little more thought might have revealed this as an impossible dream.  are they now back to square one where it was their civil war and not ours?