Salah Aboud Mahmoud

Salah Aboud Mahmoud
File:Salah Aboud Mahmoud (Cropped).jpg Salah during his tenure as Commander of the 3rd Corps in the late 1980s.
Native name	صلاح عبود محمود
Born	1950 (age 73–74) Baghdad, Iraq
Allegiance	Iraq
Service/branch	Iraqi Army
Rank	Major-General
Unit	3rd Tawakalna ala-Allah Armoured Division
Commands held	Iraqi Third Corps
Battles/wars	Iran–Iraq War Persian Gulf War Battle of Khafji Battle of 73 Easting

Salah Aboud Mahmoud (born 1950; Arabic: صلاح عبود محمود) is a former Iraqi Army general, best known for his role in Battle of Khafji and 73 Easting, during the Persian Gulf War.

Career

On January 29, 1991, Salah took part in battle with coalition forces to take control of the Saudi Arabian city of Khafji. Mahmoud also took part in the Iran–Iraq War of 1980–1988, along with the tank battle of 73 Easting.

Salah 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 defected to Jordan and called on officers to revolt against Saddam Hussein's regime. Salah 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 Salah 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, Salah disappeared and his current whereabouts are unknown.

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.