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

Saladin Governorate The Saladin or Salah Al-Din Governorate ( ar, محافظة صلاح الدين) 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 ...

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. It is situated about north of

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, and has approximately 100,000 inhabitants, who are mostly

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. 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 The 12 September 2008 Dujail bombing occurred around 1800 local time (1500 UTC), on 12 September 2008 in Dujail, Salah ad Din Governorate, when a suicide bomber drove and detonated an explosive laden car into a police station killing 31 and inju ...

also took place here, and many bombings during the separate years and withstood during the terrorist attack of

ISIS Isis (; ''Ēse''; ; Meroitic language, Meroitic: ''Wos'' 'a''or ''Wusa''; Phoenician language, Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎, romanized: ʾs) was a major ancient Egyptian deities, goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughou ...

. It is famous for its palms and grapes, and it is considered a beautiful agricultural land. The first and second witnesses who testified against

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolution ...

, who was executed because of the Dujail massacre and many other crimes, were from Dujail.

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