Four senior Al-Qaeda detainees escaped from a US-controlled section of a tightly-guarded Iraqi prison overnight, Baghdad's security spokesman said on Thursday.
"Four senior members of Al-Qaeda escaped from Cropper prison on Wednesday evening," Major General Qassim Atta said, referring to the previous name for the facility which is now called Karkh prison.
Atta said the four were being held in a US-controlled section of the prison, which lies on Baghdad's outskirts, and added that authorities were investigating the escape.
A US military spokesman confirmed an escape had occurred but declined to give details.
The prison, previously named Camp Cropper, was officially handed over to the Iraqi government on July 15, but around 200 high-value detainees remained under US custody...
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