Jail Break in Aleppo Syria; Fight to Release 4,000 Prisoners Continues for 3rd Day; Interpol Alert on Islamist Prison Breaks

The Islamic Free Damascus Movement (IFDM) and Al-Nusra Front (NF) organized on Friday a joint armed attack with bomb vehicles on Aleppo Prison....

The Supreme Council of the Syrian Revolution (SCSR) stated that a suicide attack has been previously conducted on Aleppo Prison in the north of the Aleppo city, which has been surrounded by armed opposition groups for days. After the suicide attack, an armed attack with heavy weapons was launched on the prison by the IFDM and NF....

[link to www.worldbulletin.net]

WTF. this is staged as hell.

That's the third this week,

Iraq

Pakistan yesterday and now this.

Good catch.

Pakistan

[link to www.bbc.co.uk]

Pakistan jailbreak: Taliban free 248 in Dera Ismail Khan

Remember, the US is in talks with the taliban.

Iraq

[link to www.irishtimes.com]

Al-Qaeda’s Iraqi jailbreak may have Syrian consequences

That's almost 1,000 people.

So, do you think this was co-ordinated? and where will they end up?

most likely coordinated but also strange how they're all happening so close together

sorta like the random train accidents

Good news that no one is buying the pigpoop.

it's only been two years....

Video of the fighting around the jail...

Surprise, surprise - the Allah Akbar crowd was in position to catch the initial explosion..

haha, awesome. al qaeda and moderate fsa elements will declare total war on eachother. assad can now sit back and watch all of this from a distance.

ehhhh

Looks like this one slipped under the radar


More than 1,000 inmates escape Benghazi prison in mass jailbreak as protesters storm offices of Islamist parties across Libya


[link to www.dailymail.co.uk]

All those jailbreaks might be making the embassies nervous.

Gunmen attack prisoners convoy in Libya

[link to www.foxnews.com]

there was a video of people throwing jihadi inmates off the roof

I prefer 'Durka Durka Mohamed Jihad'.

hmmmmm. I'm alright with this. Where from?

on LL sometime back...allah akabars were attacking the prison and guards were tossing 'em off the roof. they stopped attacking

Thread: Just know, something is happening in Egypt

I shouldn't but that made me laugh.

I bet these prisons served as mind control centers. some serious, ultra modern shit too. and now they've been released to conduct their missions.

Wow the Syrian guards aren't giving up their prisoners

Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister)
8/3/13, 6:24 AM
ISIS sources say the battle for control of #Aleppo prison has continued for a 2nd day - the aim is to release all 4,000+ prisoners. #Syria

Footage of Fighting from Last Night

Arm the Syrian Rebels? Islamists are shelling prison with tanks

[link to twitter.com]

Note - the source for the previous 3 posts is Charles Lister - IHS Janes Analyst & Head of MIddle East & North Africa (MENA) Research

Thanks for keeping us updated.

Apparently the tank was captured, a tweet from 10th June:

"Ahrar AlShaam captured a regime T-62 tank and killed 10s of regime fighters from the 17th division, in Raqqa"

Since deleted but still appears on google.

Beat me to it.

Well, the US government says there will be Al-Qaida attacks so there must be Al-Qaida fighters out and about to blame.

Interpol, the France-based international police agency, on Saturday issued a global security alert advising member states to increase vigilance against attacks after a series of prison breaks in Iraq, Libya and Pakistan. Interpol said it was is investigating to determine if the escapes were linked.

Prison breaks took place in Pakistan on July 31 in a Taliban-led operation, and in Iraq at the Abu Ghraib prison overnight on July 22. Some 500 convicts, among them senior al Qaeda operatives, escaped from Abu Ghraib. More than 1,100 inmates broke out of a prison on the outskirts of Benghazi on July 27.

Source - R@uters story on France closing it's embassy in Yemen

PARIS: Interpol issued a global security alert on Saturday advising its members to increase their vigilance against attacks after a series of prison breaks in Iraq, Libya and Pakistan that the agency is investigating to determine if they were linked.

The Lyon, France-based Interpol said given that al Qaeda was suspected to be involved in some of the incidents, it was asking its 190 member countries to watch out for information connected to the prison breaks, with an aim to determine whether they were coordinated and also locate the escaped prisoners.

[link to tribune.com.pk]

One discernible trend in the forums, however, is renewed confidence – one analyst called it “jubilation” – after recent prison breaks that freed hundreds of hardened jihadists from prisons in Iraq and Pakistan.

“The one noticeable trend has been increased confident chatter from al Qaida, prompted by the various prison breaks,” said Charles Lister, an analyst at the Terrorism and Insurgency Center of IHS Jane’s, a defense research firm in Britain.

Lister and others cautioned that there’s no evidence linking the enthusiasm over the prison escapes to the threats that are forcing embassy closures. But the prison breaks certainly have bolstered spirits among al Qaida-style militants, who’d suffered heavy losses after years of U.S. and allied targeting and the advent of a pro-democracy movement in the Arab world.

Now jihadists are leading the rebel fight in Syria, gaining operational space in the lawlessness of transitional North African states and regrouping in Iraq, where senior members of al Qaida were among the hundreds of detainees to escape last month from the notorious Abu Ghraib prison during an insurgent attack.

That assault was the latest of seven prison attacks since al Qaida’s emir in Iraq, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, announced his “Breaking the Walls” campaign a year ago to free his comrades, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a research center in Washington. The recent breaks have “significantly increased the operational depth” of al Qaida in Iraq, the institute said in a report issued last Sunday.

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