US search for Iraqis who escaped military jail
Posted on: Thursday, 11 May 2006, 09:50 CDT
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five suspected insurgents who escaped from a U.S. military prison in northern Iraq by cutting through the fence remain on the run after three days, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
"We continue to search for those five," Major General Rick Lynch told reporters at a regular briefing.
He said the U.S. military treated Tuesday's overnight escape from a jail holding 1,300 inmates in Kurdish northern Iraq as an isolated incident, adding that photographs of the jail breakers had been circulated in the area.
It was the first such escape from Fort Suse, one of three main prisons for "security detainees" suspected or convicted of rebellion. Records show some 70 prisoners have escaped from other U.S. facilities in Iraq.
The U.S. military is holding more than 14,000 people in Iraq, many of them from the Sunni minority that is the center of the insurgency against the new, Shi'ite-led administration.
Source: REUTERS
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