Suicide bomber shot down by army soldiers in Falluja

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: A gunman driving a vehicle rigged with 17 containers of TNT was shot down by Iraqi army soldiers after killing a soldier in a checkpoint he targeted in the city of Falluja on Friday, a police source in Anbar said. “Security agencies detonated the explosive vehicle after imposing a security cordon in the area,” the source told IraqiNews.com. Falluja, the largest city in the predominantly Sunni province of al-Anbar, lies 45 km west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P) 1