Al Qaeda militants flee Iraq jail in violent mass break-out

[Clementine]

How weak is al Qaeda if they can pull this off? I thought Obama had them on their knees. Now we have hundreds of convicted al Qaeda terrorists on the loose. Looks like al Qaeda is stronger then ever and ready to carry out some attacks.

"The number of escaped inmates has reached 500, most of them were convicted senior members of al Qaeda and had received death sentences," Hakim Al-Zamili, a senior member of the security and defense committee in parliament, told Reuters.

"The security forces arrested some of them, but the rest are still free."

One security official told Reuters on condition of anonymity: "It's obviously a terrorist attack carried out by al Qaeda to free convicted terrorists with al Qaeda."

Al Qaeda militants flee Iraq jail in violent mass break-out
Al Qaeda militants flee Iraq jail in violent mass break-out

 

[Sallow]

They wouldn't have been able to "pull this off" under Saddam.

Why?

Because they'd be dead.

 

[ClosedCaption]

How weak is al Qaeda if they can pull this off? I thought Obama had them on their knees. Now we have hundreds of convicted al Qaeda terrorists on the loose. Looks like al Qaeda is stronger then ever and ready to carry out some attacks.

"The number of escaped inmates has reached 500, most of them were convicted senior members of al Qaeda and had received death sentences," Hakim Al-Zamili, a senior member of the security and defense committee in parliament, told Reuters.

"The security forces arrested some of them, but the rest are still free."

One security official told Reuters on condition of anonymity: "It's obviously a terrorist attack carried out by al Qaeda to free convicted terrorists with al Qaeda."

Al Qaeda militants flee Iraq jail in violent mass break-out
Al Qaeda militants flee Iraq jail in violent mass break-out

1) How can they pull this off? Suicide bombers...its in your article
2) you thought Obama had them on their knees? Knees have nothing to do with it. Obama didn't Rambo anything like you suggest and you simply thought wrong. From your article:

Nearly 600 people have been killed in militant attacks across Iraq so far this month, according to violence monitoring group Iraq Body Count.

That is still well below the height of bloodletting in 2006-07, when the monthly death toll sometimes exceeded 3,000.

So its good...just not all good.

And your problem is what? Perfection hasn't been achieved?

 

[BlindBoo]

More fallout from President Bushes invasion and occupation.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Is this the US backed Al Qaida?

 

[g5000]

Is this the US backed Al Qaida?

This is the entirely avoidable Al Qaeda-in-Iraq.