Al Qaeda-Linked Government Official Breaks Out Of Jail
Karbala, Dec 3, (VOI) – The former intelligence chief arrested in Karbala last month escaped from a prison in Baghdad, a police official said on Monday.
“Lt. Colonel Hashim Jalloub, the former chief of Karbala intelligence service, managed to escape from al-Rasafa prison in Baghdad on Sunday evening,” Raed Shakir Jawdat, the Karbala police director, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
“Investigations are still going on and a number of officers were arrested after the incident,” said Jawdat, not indicating how Jalloub escaped.
Jalloub was arrested in Karbala on charges of attempted murder of a police director in a prison in Baghdad, where he was sent to resume the investigations and then refer him to a court for trial, he added.
A source in Karbala had told VOI on November 10 that special forces arrested Lt. Colonel Hashim Jalloub, the director of internal affairs in the province, on charges of “terrorism.”
The source said intelligence tips have been received about Jalloub’s involvement in “an Al Qaeda network that aims at liquidating some officials and politicians in the city, including Brig. Jawdat.”
The holy Shiite province of Karbala lies 130 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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