Dujail (; alternate spelling: Ad Dujayl) is a town in

Saladin Governorate The Saladin, Salah ad Din, or Salah Al-Din Governorate (, ) is one of Iraq's 19 governorates, north of Baghdad. It has an area of , with an estimated population of 1,042,200 people in 2003. It is made up of 8 districts, with the capital being T ...

, Iraq. It is about north of

Baghdad Baghdad ( or ; , ) is the capital and List of largest cities of Iraq, largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the List of largest cities in the A ...

. It was the site of the 1982 Dujail Massacre, in which between 142 and 148 people, including children, died.Saddam trial to open with village massacre
A little-known massacre at a village where residents tried to assassinate Saddam Hussein in 1982 will be the focus of the first case in the trial of the former Iraqi president. (''

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''; June 7, 2005) The 2008 Dujail bombing also took place there.

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Populated places in Saladin Governorate {{Iraq-geo-stub