According to Iraqi officials, the polish ambassador’s, Gen. Edward Pietrzyk, convoy was targeted on Wednesday killing an Iraqi civilian and injuring another 4, including the ambassador.

Iraqi interior ministry said a parked car detonated in the downtown neighborhood of Karrada and struck a multi-vehicle Polish convoy, sport utility vehicles with Polish flags on the side.

General Edward Pietrzyk, is at the U.S. military hospital in Baghdad in stable condition. Several private security guards were wounded and rushed to hospitals also. The vehicles were "burned down," the chief of mission said. Poland has had a strong presence in the U.S.-led coalition, and its military commands the Multi-National Division-Central South region.

According to the Brookings Institution's Iraq Index, Poland has a contingent of about 900 troops in the country. Twenty-one Polish troops have died in the Iraq war.

In 2004, insurgents attacked the Polish Embassy in Baghdad, but no one was injured.

On Tuesday, authorities in Baghdad found nine bodies across the capital, bringing to 20 the number of bodies found in the first two days of October, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.

Several diplomats have been killed by suspected al Qaeda militants in Baghdad since the 2003 invasion. Last year four Russian diplomats were abducted and killed.

In 2005 militants said they had killed Egyptian mission chief Ihab el-Sherif and Bahrain's envoy was shot and wounded when gunmen opened fire on his car.

Iraqi security forces, backed by thousands of extra U.S. troops, have imposed a security crackdown across the Iraqi capital in recent months in an effort to curb sectarian fighting and militant attacks.

Both Baghdad and Washington say the campaign has led to a clear reduction in violence. But a group led by Sunni Islamist al Qaeda fighters pledged last month to step up attacks to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (Additional reporting by Adam Jasser in Warsaw.)