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"This incident shows that Iraqi security troops are still unable to control the situation and that they are still being infiltrated by terrorists," added al-Zamili. The Tikrit prison has been the scene of some stunning jailbreaks in the past. In 2009, 16 prisoners, including five al-Qaida-linked inmates awaiting execution, made their escape after plying open the bars on a prison bathroom window with a pipe wrench. At the time, the entire staff of the prison and the provincial prison official were detained for questioning. Six of the escaped inmates were later captured. In 2010, a dozen detainees held on terrorism charges broke out of a prison in the southern city of Basra, disguised in police uniforms. And last year, al-Qaida smuggled weapons and grenades into a prison in Mosul, supposedly one of the country's most secure detention centers, and attempted an ultimately unsuccessful jailbreak that left 17 dead. In Basra on Friday, gunmen shot dead the former governor, Mohammed al-Wailie, as he was driving his car in the city center, the police said. There were no immediate details or indications who was behind the attack.
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