24 Iranian prisoners escape from a prison near Iran-Iraq border

[Barrett808]

Source: Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Baghdad - Twenty-four Iranians being held in an Iraqi prison near the border with Iran succeeded in escaping Saturday night, the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) reported Sunday.

VOI cited a security source in Wasit province, 180 kilometres south-east of Baghdad, as reporting the prison escape, and said that police had managed to recapture four of them.

The source, who declined to be identified, told VOI the 24 Iranians had broken through the prison's main gate to make their escape.

The report said a search for the escaped prisoners was underway and a state of siege declared in the area of Badra, 80 kilometres east of the Wasit capital of Kut.

Read more: http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1330199.php/24_Iranian_prisoners_escape_from_a_prison_near_Iran-Iraq_border

[sutz12]

1. Yeah, wouldn't want to inconvenience the prisoners by......

you know, putting the prisons farther from the border, now would we?

How do prisoners escape through the 'main gate'?!?!? Isn't that where security is supposed to be strongest? Or is that just me? :shrug:

[Betsy Ross]

2. And this was an Iraqi prison

with Iraqi guards? Maybe in a Shia region? Any chance of an investigation which might answer some of these questions? Was the escape aided or was it incompetence? Either way, not so great.

[EFerrari]

3. How do we know? The detentions have been 80% completely innocent

people.

:shrug: