Jail left with no prisoners as 12 detainees escape

A DOZEN terror suspects disguised in police uniforms strolled out of an Iraqi jail yesterday — even though the 12 were the only detainees held at the makeshift prison.

The escape prompted a manhunt across the nation’s south for what officials called a dangerous group of top-ranking insurgents linked to al-Qaida.

At least two of the suspects had formerly been held at Camp Bucca, the sprawling prison on Iraq’s southern border with Kuwait where the US military held tens of thousands of suspected insurgents — all of whom were transferred to Iraqi custody when the prison camp closed in September 2009.