Salah Aboud Mahmoud (born 1942;
Arabic: صلاح عبود محمود) is a former
Iraqi Army general, best known for his role in
Battle of Khafji and
73 Easting, during the
Gulf War.
Career
On January 29, 1991, Mahmoud took part in battle with
coalition forces to take control of the
Saudi Arabian city of
Khafji
Ras al-Khafji ( ar, رأس الخفجي ') or Khafji (الخفجي) is a town on the border between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. It lies in what was before 1970 the Saudi Arabian–Kuwaiti neutral zone. The Japanese-owned Arabian Oil Company Ltd s ...
. Mahmoud also took part in the
Iran–Iraq War of 1980–1988, along with the tank battle of
73 Easting.
Mahmoud was appointed commander of the Iraqi Third Corps in the aftermath of the Iran–Iraq War, a regular process in the Iraqi military to ensure that former high-ranking officers did not pose a threat to the Ba'athist Iraqi government. He was later governor of
Dhi Qar Province, a Shia province which had briefly been taken by the
1991 Iraqi insurgency before it was brutally suppressed.
1990s
In December 1994, Major-General
Wafiq Al-Samarrai
Wafiq Ajeel Homood al-Samarrai ( ar, وفيق عجيل حمود السامرائي; 1 July 1947 – 29 August 2022) was an Iraqi general who was chief of the country's general military intelligence.
Military career
Al-Samarrai served as the dep ...
defected to Jordan and called on officers to revolt against
Saddam Hussein's regime. Mahmoud was one of them he called on. He did not, and despite his connections to many of the purged officers he was never executed. Rather, he was gradually forced out of his government roles. President Hussein divided Iraq into four administrative regions in 1998. Many expected Mahmoud would be recalled to the military and appointed to the Central Euphrates governorship as governor
Mizban had been dismissed. However this did not come to pass and Mizban was reinstated.
Invasion of Iraq
After
the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Mahmoud disappeared and his current whereabouts are unknown.
See also
*
List of people who disappeared
Lists of people who disappeared include those whose current whereabouts are unknown, or whose deaths are unsubstantiated. Many people who disappear are eventually declared dead ''in absentia''. Some of these people were possibly subjected to enfo ...
References
* Kenneth Pollack, ''Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness 1948–1991'', University of Nebraska Press, 2002, p. 243–244.
* Spencer C. Tucker and Priscilla Mary Roberts, ''The Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars'', October 2010, page 763.
1950 births
2000s missing person cases
Iraqi military personnel
Missing aviators
Missing person cases in Iraq
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