Salah ad Din, Salâh-ad-Dîn, or Salahuddin (Arabic: صلاح الدين) is a governorate in Iraq, north of Baghdad. The province has an area of 24,363 square kilometers (9,406.6 sq mi). The estimated population for 2003 was 942,300 people. The provincial capital is Tikrit; the province also contains the significantly larger city of Samarra. Before 1976 the province was part of Baghdad Governorate.
The province is named after Saladin (written Salah ah Din in modern Arabic Latin transcription), an ethnic Kurd and hero of the 12th century.
On March 20, The New York Times reported that: "Police investigators in Salahudin Province have accused American troops of executing 11 civilians, including several children, during a raid last Wednesday on a house in Ishaqi, near Balad, about 60 miles (100 km) north of Baghdad." On June 02, BBC News reported this again as video tape emerges, fews weeks after Haditha revelations. On June 19, the US military announced that three soldiers of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Private First ClassCorey R. Clagett, SpecialistWilliam B. Hunsaker and Staff SergeantRaymond L. Girouard, are being charged in the connection of these deaths. On June 21, Specialist Juston R. Graber, at that time 20, was charged with premeditated murder, attempted premeditated murder, conspiracy to commit murder and making a false official statement.
