Insurgents launched a mortar attack on the infamous US-run prison at Abu Ghraib, just outside Baghdad, overnight, wounding a foreign contractor, the US military said Monday.
"Insurgents launched a mortar attack Sunday night on the Baghdad central corrections facility at Abu Ghraib. One injury resulted," a statement said.
A spokesman said the casualty was a foreign civilian contractor employed at the prison, but declined to give his nationality.
"It was a minor injury, for which he was treated and released at the detainee hospital located there," the spokesman said.
It was the sixth attack on Abu Ghraib since a major assault in April, which killed 22 Iraqi prisoners and wounded more than 100 others.
Notorious for extra-judicial killings under Saddam Hussein's regime, the prison gained new infamy earlier this year with revelations that Iraqi detainees held there had been tortured and sexually abused by their US warders.
The US military says more than 2,300 detainees are still being held at the prison on suspicion of involvement in the persistent insurgency that has dogged Iraq virtually since last year's US-led invasion.
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