Riot at Baghdad prison kills seventeen.

A prison uprising in Iraq has left at least ten inmates and six guards dead. The notable names among them are Brigadier General Moayed al-Saleh a high ranking officer in the anti-terrorism efforts in Iraq and Huthaifa al-Batawi a al Qaida leader who is accused of leading a attack on a Christian Church in Baghdad that killed at least fifty in October of last year. This is what we know so far.

The daring raid began late Saturday when Huthaifa al-Batawi, a local terror boss accused of masterminding a massacre at a Baghdad church in October, overpowered a guard who was leading him to an interrogation room, took his gun and started shooting, a security spokesman said.

After killing his captors, al-Batawi freed nearly a dozen members of his crew, who snatched a cache of weapons — including guns and grenades — and attempted to overrun the prison, officials said.

Some of the sources say that some of the weapons were just laying out in the open.

Iraqi politicians were quick to criticize security measures in the facility, where the grenades seized by the inmates had been sitting on a table. Critics said that officers there appeared to underestimate the threat posed by the inmates.

The only real good news out of all of this is that the revolt failed and Huthaifa al-Batawi is dead. But considering the death of Osama a attempt this should have been expected.

Category: Breaking News, Terror War