7/04/2004 03:35:13 PM|||Nathan Moore|||

A car bomb attack was thwarted by Iraqi troops northeast of Baghdad.

According to Iraqi police, the would-be attacker was stopped Sunday for a routine search at an Iraqi National Guard checkpoint near the unit's headquarters. The driver jumped from the vehicle, shouted "God is great" and "I'm going to kill you."

Guardsmen opened fire, killing him and triggering the explosives in the car, according to police chief Waleed al-Azawi. Two bystanders were killed in the explosion, hospital officials said.

The more of this we see, the better off Iraq will be.

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