4 soldiers wounded in Baghdad’s 3rd blast

BAGHDAD, Sept. 21 (Iraqi News) – Four Iraqi soldiers on Sunday were wounded in an explosive charge attack that targeted their patrol vehicle in northeastern Baghdad, the third explosion to rock the Iraqi capital today. “An improvised explosive device (IED) planted by unknown men on a main road in al-Waziriya neighborhood, northeastern Baghdad, detonated while an Iraqi army patrol vehicle was passing the location, wounding four patrolmen and causing damage to the vehicle,” a security source, who requested anonymity, told IraqiNews.com – Voices of Iraq – (Iraqi News). “Security forces sealed off the area of the blast and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital,” the source explained. Earlier today, an explosive charge detonated near the building of al-Bayyina newspaper, the mouthpiece of Hezbollah- Iraq Organization, in downtown Baghdad, but no casualties were reported. Four civilians were wounded in an explosive charge attack that occurred in Baghdad’s western neighborhood of al-Harithiya. Baghdad is the capital of Iraq and Baghdad province. With a municipal population estimated at 7,000,000, it is the largest city in Iraq. It is the second largest city in the Arab world (after Cairo) and the second largest city in southwest Asia (after Tehran). Located on the Tigris River, the city dates back to at least the 8 th century, and probably to pre-Islamic times. Once the center of Dar al-Islam (the abode of Islam), Baghdad has been a center of violent conflict since 2003 because of the ongoing Iraq war. Baghdad’s population is a mix of Sunnis and Shiites. It is mainly divided into two sides: the west (al-Karkh) and the east (al-Rasafa).   SS (S) 1