ad-Dawr

Ad-Dawr
Ad-Dawr
Coordinates	34 ° 27 '  N , 43 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 34 ° 27 '  N , 43 ° 48'  E
Basic data
Country	Iraq
Governorate	Salah ad-Din

Ad-Dawr, or al-Dour , is a place on the east bank of the Tigris in Salah ad-Din Governorate in Iraq .

The place is located around 15 km south of Tikrit . During the US military operation Operation Red Dawn on December 13, 2003, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was tracked down and arrested in a hiding place in ad-Dawr.

Sons and daughters (selection)

• Abdul Aziz Al-Douri (1918–2010), university professor and former Chancellor of Baghdad University

Web links

• New York Daily: Saddam Hussein was captured in 2003, December 12, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BBC.com: Saddam had been living in squalor , December 16, 2003