Suicide bomber kills 12

A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb north of Baghdad today, killing 12 Iraqis – all but one of them National Guards – in another strike against those co-operating with American forces, the US military said.

Eleven other guardsmen were wounded in the blast near Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad in the so-called Sunni Triangle, the scene of frequent assaults on US and Iraqi security forces.