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        4/15/2008, Nissan 10, 5768

      Dozens Wounded in Jordanian Prison Riots


      A riot erupted Tuesday at the Swaqa Penitentiary in the Hashemite Kingdom, 10 miles south of Amman, following similar chaos in a jail elsewhere in the Jordanian prison system a day earlier.

      Prisoners were protesting the segregation of al Qaeda terrorists from other inmates. Three prisoners were killed in rioting in a different prison Monday.

      Jordanian police spokesman Major Mohammed al-Khatib said dozens of prisoners suffered minor injures and smoke inhalation in Tuesday’s rioting.