Salman Pak (Arabic: سلمان باك ‎) is a city approximately 15 miles south of Baghdad near a peninsula formed by a broad eastward bend of the Tigris River. It is named after Salman the Persian, a companion of Muhammad who is buried there.

It is quite close to the Salman Pak facility, an Iraqi military installation which was a key center of Saddam Hussein's biological and chemical weapons programs. It is also alleged to have been the site of a training facility used by Iraqi intelligence to train militia groups.

Salman Pak is also site of the Arch of Ctesiphon, one of the largest and oldest freestanding arches in the world.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Salman Pak." | Wiki History
COL BKB: West Va. 85, Long Beach St. 62 (32 min)
NFL: Green Bay 34, Detroit 12 (32 min)
Emissions cuts no shock to Corp. America (43 min)
Ronaldo hopes to play in 'Clasico' (47 min)
Soccer officials probe match-fixing claims (49 min)
UPI NewsTrack Business (52 min)
UPI NewsTrack Quirks in the News
fark
54 years after somebody stole a radio from a college's teacher's lounge, the thief anonymously sends...
Stealing £315,000 from your quadruple amputee niece's trust fund to buy vacations and jewelry is...
Inmates protest cold meals, seem to be unclear on the concept of prison
Photoshop this BASE jumper
You're a cop, and your daughter dies in the hospital. Do you A) mourn, B) establish a scholarship...
Drunk Irish mom beans son in the face with a full beer can; to be charged with wasting beer