Thick smoke billows from the site of a car bomb that exploded in a parking lot nearby the Green Zone area in central Baghdad, 17 July 2007. A US intelligence official repeated Wednesday a description of Al-Qaeda in Iraq as an "affiliate" group to Osama bin Laden's organization, in a careful assessment of the groups' closeness.(AFP/File/Joseph Eid)
Car bomb kills 4 civilians near Baghdad's Green Zone
Posted July 23rd, 2007
BAGHDAD, July 23 (Xinhua) -- A car bomb went off near a government office close to heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least four civilians and wounding six others, an Interior Ministry source said.
"A car bomb parking near an office affiliated to the Iraqi Ministry of Housing in Karradat Mariam district, detonated in the afternoon," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The blast killed at least four people and wounded six others, the source said, citing first police report.
The explosion occurred just about 400 meters away from an entrance to the Green Zone, a vast area on the west bank of the Tigris River which houses the Iraqi government offices and foreign embassies, including the U.S. embassy.
Three more car bomb attacks struck Baghdad's Karradah districton the eastern side of the Tigris River earlier in the day, according to the police.
Violence continued infesting Baghdad streets despite a five-month-old U.S.-Iraqi security plan designed to put down insurgency and sectarian violence in the capital.
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