12 Al-Qaeda-Linked Jihadists Walk Out of Iraqi Prison Dressed as Guards
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Twelve Islamic militants linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist group broke out of an Iraqi prison in Basra, according to the BBC. The men, who were awaiting trial, managed to obtain Iraqi police uniforms and were allowed to walk out of the detention facility in southern Iraq without question.
The group of men is said to have ties with the Islamic State of Iraq, a Sunni insurgent group affiliated with al-Qaeda.
Authorities believe the escaped jihadists had help from within the prison and all guards have been placed under arrest while a manhunt is under way.
“Of course, there was collusion from within the compound, but we do not know who is involved at the moment,” Ali Ghanim al-Maliki, head of the security committee at Basra’s provincial council said.
According to the BBC, the 12 men were the only detainees being held at this particular detention facility, located inside one of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces. At least six of the men had confessed to being involved in multiple bombing attacks since 2004.
Officials speculate that the 12 fugitives likely fled to Baghdad to obtain fake identification and passports to help them flee Iraq.
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JohnnyJT
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 3:26pmBetter there than here.
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 2:12pm.
When will we learn that every nation gets the government they deserve (including ours!).
Ben Franklin said to the woman who asked what the founding fathers had created… “A Republic – IF you can keep it!” Ben understood that the highest form of government can only be sustained by a population maintaining the highest form of thinking – a population that respects laws, capitalism (private ownership), self-reliance and divine rights.
No one came to our shores and ‘gave’ us this Republic – The founding fathers understood when they wrote the Declaration of Independence that they were risking everything – their homes, fortunes, lives, and sacred honor… but they and the patriots who fought for our freedom were ready for that – they understood the value of freedom and were willing to die for it’s blessings.
If a nation of people isn’t willing to stand up and fight for their own freedom, then no amount of American blood spilled on their soil is ever going to provide it for them… If they aren’t ready to fight for their own freedom (even without our help), then history doesn’t even bother to record how quickly such countries fall back into their old ways once we leave.
We’ve become so obsessed with helping other nations we cannot see that our own freedom is hanging by a thread… We’ve indebted our children for generations to come, while supporting mindless entertainment that is dumbing down our culture through the mainstream media and Hollywood excrement. I had to walk out of Little Fokker’s after 20 minutes & demanded a refund – I’m not paying my hard-earned money to watch enemas given as ‘entertainment’ – unless it is to flush all the crap out of Washington D.C.
We’ve spent over a trillion dollars between the Iraq war and Afghanistan – and for what? We’re accused of having invaded Iraq for their oil – the truth is our taxpayers were spending over $400/gallon to provide refined gasoline to the Iraqi’s so they could fill their cars for a nickel a gallon… And how many billions did we spend on the Bosnian war – and for what? – to prove to the Islamists that we’re not so bad after all? – or to keep Monica Lewinsky off the front page? Lowering our standards usually comes at a higher price than keeping our standards high – it only seems like we can put the cost on ‘lay-away’.
All people & all nations, have a divine right to self-determination… but freedom isn’t free – it comes at a high price! We‘re so busy worrying about others’ freedom we’re losing our own – enslaving ourselves to foreign bankers, devaluing our own currency and selling out our childrens’ future to every liberal huckster with a band-aid when what we need is a defibrillator to re-invigorate our hearts and an enema to flush all the progressive crap out of our minds…
These foreign excursions are mostly a distraction from our own serious shortcomings – With freedom and self-reliance barely surviving on a ventilator here in the USA, no foreign doctors are on their way to rescue us… We are going to have to heal ourselves or suffer the consequences of having misplaced our priorities for far too long. Bring the troops home, but be prepared to defend our nation when attacked.
The more we resist allowing other nations’ self-determination, the more we cause the evil we want to fight to persist because their evil leaders can still make us look like the bad guys. We’re not the bad guys (I’m NOT agreeing with the liberals on that) – but I can see where it makes it easier for the ayatollahs and the tin-pot dictators to distract their people into siding with them – when they can point to all the interference do-gooders have wrought on the world. Treat people fairly – follow the golden rule in our relations with others, but also quit resisting their choices unless it’s for self-defense. Trying to force freedom and democratic principles on a nation that isn’t ready for it is like trying to peel open a rosebud – you cannot force it – it will open in it’s own time when it is ready.
Report Post »sbleve
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 9:20amMr. Franklin also said that ‘scoundrels’ will dominate the feeding trough of government if their pay is the lure.
Virtually all of the ‘tin pots’ have not used individual liberty as the measurement for a citizen. Material possession as has been the gold of historical record and the unavoidable evolution to becoming a tyrant.
We as a nation have engaged in one war of success. In that war there was no strategic priority to win Hearts and Minds. War is the ugliest event that man creates. War is the act of killing with a decisive blow. Our Constitutional founders consider this when the ‘Declaration of War’ was limited to the free thinking of the citizens primary responsibility executed in Congress. Tin Pots that utilize the ‘take military action’ cry to use force in subjecting a foreign people to ‘my way or the highway’ is cemented in centralized political power. The United Nations has as a corner stone this mentality. Europe was lost in the early 1800′s (French Revolution) to ever being a self rule democratic center for humanity.
All the more reason in returning civil thought – controlling tin-pots by removing the 16th (starve the beast) and 17th (hog-tie the central political power) Amendments. Simple democracies enhance political party power. Free speech is not at the whim of any civil canon exercised by existing political national parties.
Report Post »donh2
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:45pmAl Sadr is back in town …..rebuilding his death squads
Report Post »Echad
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:44pmWe here in the U.S. can’t even change the destructive culture in our own inner cities. What makes you think we could change the culture of a whole country? This is insane and just flat impossible. Both wars are a waste of life and recourses that in the end will not change anything.
Report Post »Afghanistan has around a 90% illiteracy rate. Most of the people there don’t even know about 9/11 or why we are there. Please tell me how we win the heart and minds of those who can’t even understand why we are there?
fishstx777
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 12:19pmEscaped! give me a break that an insult with anyone with an I.q of a housefly . It is called catch and release.happens in every corrupt country, look at mexico were the cartel are the prison guards.China is laughing its arse off at our political correctness . next theyll be given tv and three square muslim meals a day . oh I forgot, they already are .what do you think would happen to these killers if they were caught on chinese soil ?you dont have to answer because you know the answer and its not tv and a backrub.We grow dumber and weaker every day and the rest of the superpowers are watching.
Report Post »wash1776
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 11:09amI wonder who helped them. AN INSIDE JOB!
Report Post »Neil Mariner
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 10:59amThe people of the middle east must be isolated, untill such time the can prove there ability to function in a modern civilized society. Let them live in there caves and mud huts. We should not waist another dime trying to fuction at any level with them. There defiance of civilized conduct determines there fate.
Report Post »sbleve
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 9:34amThroughout history reformations have occured. The Mid East has been a center of turmoil for thousands of years. A reformation would by the nature of humanity take centuries to fulfill. Slow and methodical. Jihad must be reformed.
Also the definition of suicide bomber, and the seemingly endless supply of these deranged persons. A person that has no individual self created identity will resort to some fanatical call.
Report Post »SCUNGIE
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 10:53amIt was Bush’s fault
Report Post »Neil Mariner
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 10:48amLaw and order has no barring in the Middle east. Sodam Hussan new this, thats why he conduct his power the way he did. The only thing the people in that part of the World respect is total and complete domination. They need to be isolated and only able to participate with the civilized world when they achieve specified civil conduct and growth. If they can’t; let them rot in place.
Report Post »Cabo King
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 10:47amyeah we have the same problem here–“they all look alike”
Report Post »Rn mom
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 10:14amAnnual Jihad Report 2010
Jihad Attacks: 1987
Countries: 46
Religions: 5
Dead Bodies: 9175
Critically Injured: 17436
Courtesy of http://www.thereligionofpeace.com. this website ws posted here a few days ago, I looked it over and was amazed by the sheer number of people murdered under the pretenses of a muslim jihad. Then I thought to myself, no wonder why Obama and the government doesn’t want us….shhhh, don’t say the name out loud….. call them “islamic terrorists”, they are rightfully afraid of these lunatics- islam is a huge cult. The Pope’s life was threatened yesterday by the muslims for speaking out against the Copt Christmas murders in Egypt- no one reported it did they?
Report Post »sbleve
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 8:33amElectricity-digital information. The Jihad has been an on going event for the past 1000+ years. Energy like electricity has allowed a sustained event for the past 20 years. Jihad, outside of the personal struggle with right and wrong, has no tolerance for a non believer. There is no diversity of thought.
Report Post »Fight for America
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 9:51amSo, let’s see, peace loving Muslims “allowed” these excapes?
And Iraq’a great leader thinks he and his country have a grip on things?
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 10:18amKind of like our clueless leader in the White House feels and pretends he has a working grasp of his own country and a grip on reality?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 9:33amYep and Obama wants to empty Gitmo into Muslim jails across the world. Hey Barry, just grant them all amnesty and drop them back on the battle field with an AK47 and some bomb making supplies. It would be a more honest approach for you.
Report Post »victorymanns
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 9:05amTHOSE GUARDS THERE ARE DUMB . we should just get out of iraq & afganistan . those people need a tyrant as pres . thats all they know … blow yourself up or stone there own … to death .. there religion is a cult . nothing from GOD .
Report Post »Carl1
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 8:59amI’m sure Nobama got them the uniforms made for them during the same the T-shirts were being printed up. .
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 8:49amExcellent post – kudos to Enuff!! A voice of reason in a sea of irrational thinking!! http://wp.me/pYLB7-wh
Report Post »Ron Staiger
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 7:57amIt was George Bush’s fault.
Report Post »Ron Staiger
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 7:56amWell now I realize they do all look alike but I thought that was to us-not each other.
Report Post »tbear44
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 7:16amD’oh!
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 6:41amSheriff who?
Report Post »beckwill
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:56amAll twelve of them escaped…only twelve of them at this facility and all twelve got away. Barney must have left Gomer in charge while he went for coffee.
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:41amWhen will we learn to keep our noses out of other people’s business? If they’re a direct threat, we have a right to self-defense, but beyond that, we have wasted far too much treasure attempting to mold others into our likeness before they are ready for peace and freedom.
Hell – we aren‘t even ready for freedom in the USA given that the ’progressive’ members of our country are stealing our treasure and sabotaging freedom for the rest of us! God help our children given the debt we are piling onto them!
Bring the troops home, establish firm border controls and establish FAIR trade with other countries based on mutual honesty and fairness… Be prepared to defend our borders and interests – but do so quickly and unmistakably when needed – “Hearts and Minds” be damned – no more of these 20-year wars that achieve nothing.
If war is called for, get it done and get out. Let the world know that we are prepared to use our nuclear weapons rather than send thousands of troops if they attack our embassies or our homeland. A small demo in a remote desert might be enough to convince Iran and N.Korea that we are serious. Doing it the way we are is just going to invite them to make a first strike anyway!
These long, drawn-out conflicts weaken us and achieve nothing – What did we achieve in Vietnam? Lebanon? North Korea? Iraq? What are we achieving in Afghanistan besides giving unaccounted-for $billions (all borrowed from China) to drug lords?
Report Post »Liberty7
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 9:04amIt sure is hard to disagree with your post ENUFF. I am becoming more disillusioned by the day at what reportedly is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan. For the life of me, I am having a difficult time how we even consider Afghanistan a functioning country. Karzai is totally corrupt and we are afraid to call him out on it in public. I have no confidence this administration is going to be successful in Afghanistan.
Report Post »sbleve
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 9:23amThe downside to Nation building. A product of WW2 and the United Nations. Scientifically speaking the profile of a politician – Coriolis effect, once it starts in motion use a stick to impede the spokes.
Definition of said politician – attach a playing card to the framework of political machinery, so that the card strikes a passing spoke, and imitates the sound of an engine (engines create work-force).
Oh, this Iraq incident was just an accident. It would have happened anywhere. The prisoners were charged with doing the laundry of the guards uniforms. Be pleasant, the prisoners were only wash and wear-dry these garments.
Debt that my grandchildren must pay to:
Top ten bond holders –China Mainland, Japan, United Kingdom, Oil Exporters, Brazil
Hong Kong, Carib Banking Ctrs, Russia, Taiwan, Canada.
A side interest – what are the American legacy fortunes that have $/investment in the Caribbean bank?
There were three events during the 90′s that put in motion the last-stand on Custer Hill of Afghanistan and Iraq.
1. Gulf War – the world order said ‘liberate’ Kuwait, do not punish Iraq.
2. Mogadishu – send military/hog-tied to do the work of a politician
3. Bosnia/Kosovo Show Islam that the ‘Satan’ is a good guy.
The accumulation of the United States charging around the world for a political value (kill the Stalin commies), without the will to accomplish/solution to a perceived political problem (I am an American communist religious fanatic) by using the wrong tool – military, dollar debt for the children of the next generation. A political game that began in the early 20th century. The Big ‘D’ controllers of the 20th century preach civil liberty (ie “liberals”) but practice a totalitarian religion. The halfwit Big ‘R’ players in the same time-frame defied the teacher by feeding the floor-beast table scraps to its final obesity prone to cardiovascular terminal mediocrity.
Report Post »wash1776
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 11:08amI have thought all of this for so long. Glad to finally see it put into words by an obviously intelligent person. WAY TO GO!!
Report Post »scguitar
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 4:22am*facepalm*
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 5:04am*palmface*
Report Post »rbqueen
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 3:39amActually they will say it‘s Sarah’s fault because they will claim that she could see what was going on from Alaska and that she didn’t sound the alarm and stop the escape.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 3:26ammust be sarah’s fault.she was a guard there right?
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 6:12amAnd O’Barry and the Demunists want to bring Gitmo detainees t the US??? What a great idea!! Imagine these guys running around the neighborhoods of NJ??
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 6:30amWe should leave Iraq, we should leave Afghanistan and let them slaughter each other. They clearly were let out on purpose.
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guyperram
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 7:11amProbably George and Dicks fault. Couldn’t possibly be Barrys fault because he was communing with his puppeteer, Soros, at that time.
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 8:32amNext stop….America
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 10:17amI wonder how much Obama paid in bribes for his ‘defenseless brothers of love and peace’ to walk out of the jail this way?
Report Post »Saving Common Cents
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 2:57pmFIRST QUESTION…why are they even able to walk? I do believe in capital punishment, if their crimes deserve such..then they would not be walking away from any where, just to turn around and harm the innocent again…reminds me of how we vote in judges that let our criminals back out only to arrest them later for a more viscous crime…right? How about those sex predators and car thieves? I like Sylvester Stallone’s answer in the movie “COBRA”…“Youre the disease and I am the cure”…eliminate the threat to innocent people…use COMMON SENSE…
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 15, 2011 at 7:33pmThis is the constuction crew for the ground zero mosque.
Report Post »*************************
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:08pm“12 Al-Qaeda-Linked Jihadists Walk Out of Iraqi Prison Dressed as Guards” …
… done Warner Brothers style:
(see “Sam Sheepdog & Ralph Wolf – Woolen Under Where (1963)”, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOSuhxFo76o )
[at the breafast table]
Report Post »Ichbar the Islamist prisoner: “Well, time‘s a wastin’, Achmed.”
Achmed the Islamist guard: “Yep, another day another shekel.”
[at the punch-in clock]
Ichbar the Islamist prisoner: “I already punched you in, Sam.”
Achmed the Islamist guard: “Oh, well, thank’s allot Ralph”
[work whistle blows]
Sam I am
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 9:19amYeah, they “broke out” alright, wink, wink, nod, nod.
Report Post »Is there a sane person who doesn’t believe the minute we pull out, the country will revert to the way it was?