Salah Aboud Mahmoud

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Salah Aboud Mahmoud
Salah during his tenure as Commander of the 3rd Corps in the late 1980s.
Native name	صلاح عبود محمود
Born	1942 (age 79–80) Baghdad, Iraq
Allegiance	Iraq
Service/branch	Iraqi Army
Rank	Major-General
Unit
Commands held	Iraqi Third Corps
Battles/wars	Iran–Iraq War Persian Gulf War Battle of Khafji Battle of 73 Easting

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. 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 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

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.

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