Attempt to bomb Imam al-Kadhim's shrine foiled.BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Security forces on Saturday defused an explosive device found inside the shrine of Imam Musa al-Kadhim in Baghdad's al-Karkh area, the Iraqi minister of interior said on Saturday. "The device, which was in the form of a religious book, was safely defused by the security forces," the semi-official al-Iraqiya TV quoted Minister Jawad al-Bulani as saying. The minister did not provide further details. Imam Musa 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 Ja'far al-Sadiq (Arabic: جعفر الصادق in full Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Husayn (702-765 AD) was the sixth infallible Imam and one of the Ahl al-Bayt of Shi'a Islam. , 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 caliph Arabic khalifah (“deputy” or “successor”) Title given to those who succeeded the Prophet Muhammad as real or nominal ruler of the Muslim world, ostensibly with all his powers except that of prophecy. Harun al-Rashid Harun al-Rashid (här  n är-räshēd`) [Arab.,=Aaron the Upright], c.764–809, 5th and most famous Abbasid caliph (786–809). imprisoned im·pris·on tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- 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 stam·pede n. 1. A sudden frenzied rush of panic-stricken animals. 2. A sudden headlong rush or flight of a crowd of people. 3. 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. Copyright 2009 Aswat al-Iraq Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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