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The clashes broke out in the east of the city around 7 a.m. (0400 GMT). Black smoke could be seen rising from buildings as groups of gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades and mortar rounds amid heavy U.S. shelling.
Iraqi families began to flee their homes as fighting intensified throughout the morning and witnesses said they saw a U.S. military vehicle ablaze.
Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, has seen almost daily clashes between U.S. troops and insurgents. There is a heavy U.S. troop presence inside the city, in Iraq (news - web sites)'s Sunni Muslim heartland, where anti-American sentiment runs high.
Insurgents also attacked a U.S. military convoy in Qaim, near the Syrian border, using rocket-propelled grenades on Monday, witnesses said.
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