US sentry saves troops by killing suicide bomber By Jack Fairweather (Filed: 10/12/2003) Sixty soldiers were hurt in Iraq attacks yesterday. One man halted a bloodbath, reports Jack Fairweather in Talaafar Hundreds of American soldiers owe their lives to the prompt action of a 23-year-old sentry. In the faint pre-dawn light Specialist James Ross saw a car, its headlights on, accelerate towards his guard tower at the entrance of the Talaafar military base, near Mosul. The vehicle had already cleared the first line of defence, barrelling over a coil of barbed wire 80 yards away and was heading straight down...