This Army memo concerns the escape of a detainee who used a piece of cardboard from a water bottle box to push the triple strain concertina wire up and slide under the wire and escape from Abu Ghraib prison. The detainee did this while the tower guard was turned the other way. The memo also addresses a shooting where detainees started to throw rocks from their compounds at three (3) interior guards. The interior guards tried to get behind a generator to avoid the rock throws. They then proceeded to the exit. Enroute to the exit the interior guards were hit with baseball size rocks. A prisoner was about to throw a tent pole like a javelin at the interior guards only 10-15 feet away, when all three guard towers fired at the main threat eight (8) times and one (1) tower shot three (3) times into the crowd. This effectively dispersed the crowd and eliminated the threat.