handed security of Anbar to the Iraqi government in September, but US Marines are still still there

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Iraq militants escape jail, at least 14 dead

(Reuters)

26 December 2008

BAGHDAD - Three senior Islamist militants escaped from their cells in clashes overnight at a police station in Iraq’s western city of Ramadi, which killed at least seven police and seven militants, officials said.

Prisoners being held at the al-Fursan facility overpowered a policeman who entered a cell early on Friday, stealing the man’s weapon and killing him, said Major-General Tareq Yusuf, police commander for Anbar province. snip

The United States handed security control of Anbar to the Iraqi government in September, but U.S. Marines are still stationed in the province.

Yusuf said that police were going house to house with photos of the escaped inmates on Friday morning. He pledged the militants would be captured.

“The people of this city will help us bring them back to justice,” he said.