The Rev. Basman George Fatouhi, third from left, leading Christmas Mass at Saint Paul's Chaldean Church in Mosul, Iraq on Wednesday. Sam Dagher/The New York TimesQaeda 'Emirs' Flee In Deadly Iraq Jailbreak -- Yahoo News/AFP
RAMADI, Iraq (AFP) – A local Al-Qaeda chief known as "Imad the killer" escaped in a pre-dawn breakout from an Iraqi police station on Friday, triggering a wild shootout that left 13 militants and policemen dead.
Imad Ahmed Farhan, who police say has admitted to murdering at least 100 people, is on the run with two other "emirs" or local leaders of Al-Qaeda who broke out of their cells in a police station in the western city of Ramadi.
"During an exchange of fire between prisoners trying to escape and police officers in the station, six policemen and seven prisoners were killed," provincial police chief Tareq al-Dulaimi said.
The three prisoners managed to flee but one was recaptured, Dulaimi said, adding that another four policemen were wounded in the shootout that occurred at 2 am (2300 GMT Thursday) at Forsan police station in the centre of Ramadi.
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