Al-Amin al-Thaniyah

33°18′50″N 44°30′04″E / 33.313802°N 44.501104°E / 33.313802; 44.501104 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.

  1. ^ "FOXNews.com - Shiites Renaming Baghdad Streets - U.S. & World". Fox News. Archived from the original on 2008-03-20.