Al Qaeda prisoners vs Iraqi police, 13 killed

Six Iraqi police and seven Al Qaeda militia killed, Friday (26/12), when the members of the group that seeks an escape from custody at the police office in the city of Ramadi, western Iraq.

"In the shooting of prisoners who attempted escape and the police in the office, six police and seven prisoners died," said the head of the provincial police Tareq al Dulaimi.

Dulaimi describes three successful escape custody and a re-arrested. Four other injuries in the police shooting that occurred at 02:00 local time in the Forsan police station in the central city of Ramadi.

Ramadi police the curfew in the city after the incident, said a ministry source in the country and add three fugitive Al Qaeda is the "emir" or local leaders.

Ramadi city settled the majority of the Sunni groups is the capital of Anbar province, base important Al Qaeda after the government removed President Saddam Hussein by U.S. leaders invasion in 2003. But since 2006, Sunni groups to help the U.S. military to fight hard line groups. Action violence every day decreased dramatically in the Anbar province while the Al Qaeda combatants have been out of the area.

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Source: Ant