基地组织的领导人，在伊拉克监狱打死17人

Huthaifa Al-Batawi, known as Al-Qaeda's “Emir of Baghdad” and the alleged architect of a deadly attack on a Catholic church, was killed along with 10 other senior Al-Qaeda militants, said Baghdad's security spokesman Maj. Gen. Qassim Al-Moussawi. Huthaifa铝Batawi，因为基地组织的“巴格达埃米尔”和天主教教堂上的一个致命的攻击据称知名建筑师，被打死了10名其他高级基地组织武装分子一直称，巴格达的安全发言人少将卡西姆铝-穆萨维。

The skirmish at an Interior Ministry counter-terrorism unit jail complex in Baghdad's central Karrada district began when a prisoner grabbed a gun from a guard, killed several guards and ministry officers, and gave a weapon to other inmates, Moussawi said.内政部在一项反恐怖主义单位在巴格达的中央Karrada区复杂小冲突开始时，监狱囚犯从一名警卫抓住了枪，杀害了几名警卫和部的官员，并给其他囚犯的武器，穆萨维说。

Inmates controlled a section of the facility for several hours before a SWAT team brought the siege to an end, security officials said.犯人控制的几个小时之前，该设施的第一个特警队带来的围攻结束，安全官员说。

The jail housed about 250 inmates, many of them members of Al-Qaeda, one source said.约250犯人住监狱，他们的基地组织成员多，一个消息来源称。

“Security forces and guards responded to the jail of the counter-terrorism department and killed 11 terrorist-prisoners ... “安全部队和警卫回应反恐怖主义部监狱，杀害了11名恐怖分子囚犯... including Huthaifa Al-Batawi, the Emir of Baghdad, who was in charge of planning the church attack,” Moussawi said.包括Huthaifa铝Batawi，对巴格达埃米尔，谁在负责规划的教堂被攻击，“穆萨维说。

Moussawi said seven security officers — including Brig.穆萨维说，七名保安人员 - 包括准将。 Muaid Mahdi, head of investigations at the counter-terrorism unit — were killed in the skirmish and one other was wounded. Muaid，在反恐调查单位负责人迈赫迪 - 被杀害，遭遇战和另外一个受伤。

A senior security official who asked not to be named said eight terrorism suspects, most facing death sentences, were killed along with nine security officers, three of them senior officials.一名高级安全官员谁不愿透露姓名的恐怖嫌疑人说，8，大多数面临死刑判决，被打死了9名安全人员，其中高级官员三沿。

Batawi was arrested along with 11 others in late November in connection with the Oct. 31 assault on Our Lady of Salvation church during Sunday mass. Batawi一起被捕11月下旬在与10月31日在圣母教堂的拯救大规模攻击连接在周日与11人。 Dozens of hostages and police died when Iraqi forces tried to free more than 100 Catholic hostages.数十名人质和警察死亡，伊拉克部队试图释放100多名天主教人质。

The attack was the bloodiest against Iraq's Christian minority since the 2003 US-led invasion.这次袭击是对伊拉克的基督教少数自2003年美国入侵伊拉克最血腥的。

Security officials said it was Batawi who started the jail battle by seizing a guard's gun in an attempt to flee.安全官员说，这是Batawi谁抓住开始，企图逃离一名看守的枪监狱的战斗。

Moussawi said the situation at the jail was under control and no prisoners had escaped.穆萨维说，在监狱的情况已受到控制，没有犯人逃跑。

Iraqi security forces have been on high alert for revenge attacks by Al-Qaeda since US commandos killed the group's leader Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan on Monday.伊拉克安全部队已经在基地组织的报复性袭击，因为美国在巴基斯坦突击队杀害周一集团的头目本拉登高度警惕。

Iraq became a major battlefield for the militant group after the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.伊拉克在2003年后成为美国为首的入侵，推翻萨达姆侯赛因的武装集团的主要战场。

One Iraqi security official estimates the group is behind 70 percent of the scores of bombings and other attacks carried out in Iraq every month.一名伊拉克安全官员估计，该集团背后70爆炸和在伊拉克进行其他攻击每月百分之得分。