Ad-Dawr

Ad-Dawr, (Al-Dour) (الدور) (the same pronunciation of the English word "door") is a small agricultural town near the Iraqi town of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's birthplace. The town is populated mainly by Arabs. There is a housing complex called Saad 14 which was built by Hyundai Engineering & Constructions Inc. in the 1980s. The most famous modern Arab historian scholars is of this town, Prof. Dr. Abdul Aziz Al-Douri (1918–2010), the chancellor of Baghdad University in the 1960s. In May 2003, the 4th Battalion 42nd Field Artillery, part of the US Army's 4th Infantry Division, established a Forward Operating Base just south of the town, called FOB Arrow. On May 15, 2003, troops from the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division raided the town,...