Al-Amin al-Thaniyah
33°18′50″N 44°30′04″E / 33.313802°N 44.501104°E Al-Amin al-Thaniyah is a neighborhood in New Baghdad, a district on the east side of Baghdad.
It was named after the Caliph al-Amin.[citation needed] In 2003, Shiites renamed it to "Al-Murthadha District", after Ali Murthadha, the first Shiite imam.[1]
The controversial airstrikes on July 12, 2007, by a US army attack helicopter, which killed a number of civilians, among them two Reuters news staff, took place here.
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[edit]- ^ "FOXNews.com - Shiites Renaming Baghdad Streets - U.S. & World". Fox News. Archived from the original on 2008-03-20.
- ^ "Blogger".
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-04-01. Retrieved 2010-04-10.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.humanitarianinfo.org/iraq/maps/280a%2520A4%2520Baghdad%2520districts%2520neighbourh%2520300dpi.pdf (see sector 34, "Mashtal, Ameen, Nafit, Rustomiya", in the District "7 Nissan".)
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