IED wounds 3 Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Three Shiite pilgrims were wounded on Friday in a bomb blast in central Baghdad, according to a security source. “The bomb exploded on Friday targeting a number of Shiite pilgrims, who were visiting Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine, in central Baghdad, injuring three of them,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The blast caused material damage to a number of vehicles in Sahet al-Fardous in central Baghdad,” he added. Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, (Seventh of Safar, 128 AH- Twenty-fifth of Rajab, 183 AH) (Approximately: October 28, 746 AD-September 1, 799 AD), the seventh of the Twelver Shiite Imams. Imam Kadhim was the son of the sixth Shiite Imam, Ja’far al-Sadiq, and his mother’s name was Hamida Khatoon. He was born during the power struggles between the Umayyad and the Abbasid dynasties. In 795, Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid imprisoned Musa al-Kadhim. Four years later, he ordered Sindi ibn Shahiq to poison him. He died in a prison in Baghdad in 799 and was buried in Baghdad’s al-Karkh district in an area named after him: al-Kadhimiya. A stampede on Jisr al-Aiema (Bridge of Imams), leading to the tomb of Imam Kadhim in the town in 2005 killed more than 1,000 people and wounded 300 others, also causing part of the bridge to collapse. SH (P) 2