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| 22 inmates killed in attack |
| By Washington Post |
| Published: 04/26/2004 |
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Insurgents launched a mortar attack on the former Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad last Tuesday, killing 22 Iraqi prisoners and injuring more than 90 others. The U.S. military said those killed in the 18-shell barrage were either former members of Saddam Hussein's government or people involved in attacks on American forces. Abu Ghraib, located about 20 miles west of Baghdad, has been converted into a U.S. detention center, with an estimated 5,000 detainees. While there was speculation that insurgents sought to provoke an uprising at the prison, the attackers might have thought that large numbers of U.S. troops were housed in the sprawling facility, which is surrounded by high concrete walls. The area around the prison recently has been the scene of fierce fighting between U.S.-led forces and insurgents. Halliburton Co. of Iraq, a huge contractor in the reconstruction, said on Tuesday that three of four bodies found earlier this month near an attack on a fuel convoy, close to Abu Ghraib, were contract workers it employed. Halliburton and its subcontractors have lost 33 employees in the Iraq-Kuwait region since the beginning of the war, the Houston-based firm said. U.S. Marines who had been stationed in the zone that includes the prison and other sections southwest of the capital have been replaced with Army troops, a senior Army official in Iraq said last Tuesday. U.S. commanders say that will free Marines to help pacify the embattled city of Fallujah. The military said Marines on patrol discovered the area from which the mortars were fired at the Abu Ghraib prison but that the insurgents had fled. |
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