Same Baghdad prison where 22 were killed?

[MaineDem]

Man oh man, if I'm reading this correctly, the prison where the torture pictures were taken is the same one that suffered the mortar attack a few weeks ago.

From the Washington Post on April 20:
A mortar attack on a prison near Baghdad today killed 22 Iraqi detainee and injured more than 90, the U.S. military said.

Military spokesmen said everyone killed at the Abu Ghraib prison, about 10 miles west of the capital, was classified as security detainees, meaning they were either former members of Saddam Hussein's Baathist government or people involved in attacks on U.S. forces.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26962-2004Apr20.html

Does this seem suspicious to anyone else? I thought it was odd at the time that the only ones killed were the prisoners.

[benburch]

1. Prisoners = Witnesses

You may have something there, but I hope not!

:tinfoilhat:

[Junkdrawer]

2. Good catch....n/t

[Ganja Ninja]

3. There's getting to be too many conspiracies to believe that ...

none of them can be true. Where there's smoke there's fire.

[izzie]

4. Bad aim from the same men that hit the Arab news building.

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[Junkdrawer]

5. Kick

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[Junkdrawer]

7. Kick

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[Minstrel Boy]

6. "All of the casualties were security detainees"

GUERRILLAS barraged Baghdad's largest prison with mortar shells today, killing 22 prisoners suspected of belonging to the anti-American insurgency or Saddam Hussein's former regime in what a US general says may have been an attempt to spark a riot against their American guards.

Ninety-two prisoners were wounded in the attack, 25 of them seriously, said Colonel Jill Morgenthaler, a US military spokeswoman. "This isn't the first time that we have seen this kind of attack. We don't know if they are trying to inspire an uprising or a prison break," Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told AP Radio.

All of the casualties were security detainees, Morgenthaler said, meaning they were suspected of involvement in the anti-US insurgency or of being part of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime. The prison houses some 5000 security detainees.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,9344985%255E1702,00.html

[MaineDem]

8. One final kick

Maybe I'm way off on this.

Edited 'cause I can't spell.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. It did seem odd when it was first reported

Why would the Iraqis attack a prison? And how lucky, that they only killed prisoners but there were no US casualties?

In light of what we know now, somehow I doubt that it was Iraqis who were behind this attack. Seems more likely that someone was trying to destroy the evidence?