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Insurgents begin attacks west of Baghdad;

A suicide car bomber attacked a US convoy near Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad, destroying three vehicles, and insurgents shelled the notorious lockup with seven mortar rounds, police said.

In the same area, insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at a second US convoy, damaging three armoured vehicles, said police Lt. Alaa Hussein.

The US military issued no immediate casualty reports in any of the incidents.