33°18′50″N 44°30′04″E / 33.313802°N 44.501104°E / 33.313802; 44.501104 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.[citation needed] 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.
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