Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Double bombing in Iraq kills 27, injures dozens

http://brightbridgewealthmanagement-mag.com/2011/05/brightbridge-wealth-management-headlines-double-bombing-in-iraq-kills-27-injures-dozens/Kirkuk is rife with ethnic and sectarian tensions among Arabs, Kurds and Turkmens, all of whom view themselves as the rightful owners of the province with immense oil reserves. The Kurds wish to annex the area to their semiautonomous Kurdistan region, while Arabs insist it should be under Baghdad’s control. Despite eight years of U.S.-backed efforts to mediate a solution, the sides remain at loggerheads.
Armed groups hope to exploit the population’s differences with bombings and killings.
On Thursday, a bomb hidden in a car exploded in a parking lot where police officers and Kurdish intelligence officers often mingle and drink tea. Eight people were wounded, all of them police. Officers worried about damage to their cars rushed to the parking lot and right into a trap: The attackers then detonated a second car bomb, which witnesses and security officials said killed 27 people.
“I always left my car in this park. Most of our friends left their cars in this place,” said police officer Fadl Ahmed. “I saw about 20 policemen’s bodies. There were too many wounded. Everyone was crying. There was too much blood all over the place.”
Ahmed mourned his friends. “I saw one of my officers. I had said good morning to him by the lot and when I came back, he was dead.”