Mahmoudiyah
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Mahmoudiyah (also transliterated Mahmudiyah, Mahmoudi, or Mahmoodiyah, prefixed usually with Al-) is an Iraqi town south of Baghdad. Known as the “Gateway to Baghdad,” the city's proximity to Baghdad made it central to the counterinsurgency campaign.
[edit] War Crime incident
During the Iraq War a war crime took place in Mahmoudiyah in March of 2006 when five soldiers of the 502d Infantry Regiment, including Steven D. Green, are accused to have raped the Iraqi 14-year-old girl Abeer Qasim Hamza and then murdered her, her father, her mother Fakhriya Taha Muhasen and her 7 year old sister. More than one of the soldiers admitted to the crime. One of them has been discharged and a trials are ongoing as of Feb 20, 2007. [1]
Earlier, in late 2003, The Observer and Human Rights Watch reported a less volitile incident in Al-Mahmudiyah associated with the soldiers from the 82nd Airborne’s 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
[edit] Civil Infrastructure
A lot of effort has been put into rebuilding this city. [2] The current mayor (as of January 2007) is Muayid Fadil Hussein Habib. [3]
[edit] External links
- San Diego Union Tribune article about Marines in Al-Mahmoudiyah.
- Map of Al-Mahmudiyah from multimap.com.
- Army article about the Al-Buhaira Elementary School remodeling project in Mahmudiyah from March of 2006.
- Stars and Stripes article from February 2006 by Andrew Tilghman about militia vs. militia violence in Al-Mahmudiyah.
- A video from March 2006 (from Chris Brewer, who was in the Air Force in the 206th Broadcast Operations Detachment, American Forces Network) of Al-Mahmoudiyah's city center.
