Car Bombs Strike Second Major Iraq Bank -- New York Times
BAGHDAD — A pair of car bombs detonated simultaneously outside Iraq’s Bank of Trade on Sunday morning, killing 26 people and wounding 52 others in the second attack on a major government financial institution in eight days.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing, but the Islamic State of Iraq, an insurgent group with ties to Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, has said it was responsible for a bloody raid at Iraq’s Central Bank in Baghdad last Sunday that killed 15 people and injured 50.
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