Al-Amin al-Thaniyah is a neighborhood in New Baghdad

New Baghdad

New Baghdad or Baghdad Al-Jidida is one of nine administrative districts in Baghdad, Iraq. This district has nine Neighborhood Advisory Councils and a District Advisory Council. It is located east of the city center...

, a district on the east side of Baghdad

Baghdad

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.

It was named after the Caliph al-Amin

Al-Amin

Muhammad ibn Harun al-Amin , Abbasid Caliph. He succeeded his father, Harun al-Rashid in 809 and ruled until he was killed in 813.-Caliph:...

. In 2003, Shiites renamed it to "Al-Murthadha District", after Ali Murthadha, the first Shiite imam.

The controversial airstrikes on July 12, 2007

July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike

The July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrikes were a series of air-to-ground attacks conducted by a team of two United States Army AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, in the district of New Baghdad in Baghdad, during the insurgency that followed the Iraq War.In the first strike "Crazyhorse 1/8"...

 by a US army attack helicopter, which killed a number of civilians, among them two Reuters

Reuters

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news staff, took place here.

Variant transliterations into English

• "al-Amin" / "Amin"/"Ameen"
• "Thanniyah" can also be spelled "Thania" or "Thanya".