Suicide car bomber kills 20 in Iraq

A suicide car bomber hit a police checkpoint today in western Ramadi, killing at least 20 people – two of them policemen – and wounding as many as 20, police in the Anbar provincial capital.

Anbar province has been a stronghold of the Sunni insurgency but many tribes in the region recently switched allegiance, with large numbers of military-age men joining the police force and Iraqi army in a bid to expel al Qaida in Iraq fighters.