Interpol police agency issues alert over Iraqi jail breaks

International police agency Interpol has issued an international alert around the Middle East over hundreds of convicts who escaped from two Iraqi prisons. Monday’s jailbreaks from Abu Ghraib prison and Taji prison near Baghdad pose a "major threat" to global security, said Interpol in a statement, noting that “many of the escaped prisoners were senior-level al-Qaeda members, some of whom had been sentenced to death." The agency said it is working in cooperation with the Iraqi police, gathering photographs and fingerprints of the fugitives to help track them down.