Urgent/ 2 blasts heard in Falluja

Falluja-Urgent ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: Eyewitnesses said on Thursday that two simultaneous explosions were heard in Falluja city, leaving a number of casualties. “The first blast was carried out by a car bomb targeting a checkpoint in al-Sakaniya region in western Falluja, while no information was available on the second blast,” an eyewitness told IraqiNews.com. “The blasts left an unspecified number of casualties,” he added. Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, lies 110 km west of Baghdad. Anbar is the largest province in Iraq geographically. Encompassing much of the country’s western territory, it shares borders with Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Anbar is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim Arab. Anbar’s main cities are Falluja, the capital Ramadi, Haditha, Hit, Aana and Rutba. The name of the province translates “granaries,” as this region was the primary entrepôt on the western borders of Lakhmid Kingdom. The province was known as Dulaim until 1962 when it was changed to Ramadi. In 1976 it was renamed al-Anbar. SH (P)/SR 1