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23-07-2013 | (Voice of Iraq)

BAGHDAD (Reuters)

Al-Qaeda announced in a statement posted on a militant Islamic forums on Tuesday claimed responsibility for breaking into two prisons in Iraq and said that free more than 500 prisoners in the most daring operations in Iraq.

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, which was formed this year when it merged branch of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria that it carried out the attacks on the prisons of Abu Ghraib and Taji, after months of preparation continued.

The attack came on Monday, exactly a year after launching Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of Iraq's wing of al Qaeda campaign dubbed "the demolition of the walls" make liberalization of its members imprisoned priority.

And regained the Sunni insurgents in the past few months, the momentum in the campaign that they give the Shi'ite-led government, which took over the management of the country after the U.S. invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

The group said it had sent suicide bombers and missiles and 12 car bomb, killing 120 guard Iraqis and members of the security forces for the offensive Taji and Abu Ghraib, a prison that saw commit U.S. troops grave violations against prisoners, some ten years ago as evidenced by the pictures published in the then .

The statement "in response to the call of Sheikh Mujahid Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, may Allah protect him in that stamped plan the demolition of the walls of the blessed, which began a year ago today invading the quality ... launched Mujahideen Brigades after initialization and planning for months targeted two of the largest prisons in the government Safavid inherited from the Crusade on two of Iraq and Baghdad Central Prison (Abu Ghraib) and Pisces prison (coronary). "

The word refers to the Safavid family that ruled Iran during the period from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century and used to refer to the year Shiites in Iraq.

Sectarian tensions have escalated across the region due to the ongoing war in Syria and that made fighters of Shiites and Sunnis from outside the country taking part in the fighting.

The violence has raised fears of the outbreak of full-scale conflict in Iraq, where it has not yet reached the Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis to a stable way to power-sharing.

At the same time taking the re militants regroup and recruit more individuals.

Some politicians said the attack on the prisons shows that the government began to lose control of the security situation. The group said (Irak body of Count), which tracks the violence in Iraq, said about 700 people have died so far this month in attacks by militants.

This number is much less than the number of dead at the height of the sectarian conflict between Sunnis and Shiites in 2006-2007, when the number of victims exceeds three thousand each month.

(Prepare our Afifi for Arab Bulletin - edit princess Fahmy)

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