Two bombs kill 27 near Iraq police offices

By artappraiser on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 9:35am |

By Asso Ahmed in Kirkuk and Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times, May 19, 2011

BAGHDAD—A double bombing killed at least 27 people, almost all of them police, and wounded an additional 70 in a parking lot outside the main police offices the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk on Thursday, according to security officials.

It was the second major attack against police forces this month, after 16 people were killed in a blast outside a headquarters in the southern city of Hilla, the first week of May. The bombings along with recent jail break attempts in Basra and Baghdad have put Iraq's forces under new scrutiny as the last of the U.S. troops prepare to leave the country at the end of the year. "This has the fingerprint of Al Qaeda," said Brigadier Jamal Tahi, Kirkuk's head policeman....

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