Al-Amin al-Thaniyah explained

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. 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.

Variant transliterations into English

• "al-Amin"^[2] /"Amin"^[3] /"Ameen"^[4]
• "Thanniyah" can also be spelled "Thania" or "Thanya".

Notes and References

1. Web site: FOXNews.com - Shiites Renaming Baghdad Streets - U.S. & World . www.foxnews.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080320065313/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93690,00.html . 2008-03-20.
2. Web site: Blogger.
3. Web site: Archived copy . 2010-04-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100401112956/http://www.understandingwar.org/files/Baghdad.jpg . 2010-04-01 . dead .
4. https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.humanitarianinfo.org/iraq/maps/280a%2520A4%2520Baghdad%2520districts%2520neighbourh%2520300dpi.pdf (see sector 34, "Mashtal, Ameen, Nafit, Rustomiya", in the District "7 Nissan".)