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- Major General of the Iraqi Army Salah Aboud Mahmoud, 1950
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Major-General Salah Aboud Mahmoud (Arabic: صلاح عبود محمود) (born 1942) was an Iraqi former military commander during Saddam Hussein's reign. On 29 January 1991, he was involved in battle with coalition forces to take control of the Saudi Arabian city of Khafji. Mahmoud took part in the Iran - Iraq War of 1980 - 88. He also took part in the tank battle of 73 Easting.
He was appointed commander of the III corps in the aftermath of the war, a regular process in Iraq's military to ensure that former high ranking officers did not pose a threat to the regime. He was later governor of Dhi Qar Province, a Shia province which had briefly been taken by the 1991 Iraqi insurgency before it was brutally suppressed.
In December 1994, Major General Wafiq Al-Samarrai defected to Jordan and called on officers to revolt against Saddam Hussein's regime. Salah was one of them he called on. He did not, and despite his connections to many of the purged officers he was never executed. Rather, he was gradually forced out of his government roles. President Hussein divided Iraq into four administrative regions in 1998. Many expected Salah would be recalled to the military and appointed to the Central Euphrates governorship as governor Mizban had been dismissed. However this did not come to pass and Mizban was reinstated.
After the Invasion of Iraq in 2003, Mahmoud vanished and his later whereabouts were unknown.