Insurgents Attack Abu Ghraib Prison

World | April 2, 2005, Saturday // 00:00

A group of 40 to 60 insurgents attacked the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq late Saturday in a well-coordinated assault that inflicted 18 American casualties, U.S. military officials were cited as saying. The officials said the insurgents attacked with two car or truck bombs, 40 mortars and an intense ground assault. US forces in Iraq house many suspected insurgents at the prison outside Baghdad, which is at the center of a prison abuse scandal.

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