Amaanullah al-Bilal

Amaanullah al-Bilal was an Iraqi who killed 26 people and wounded 27 others in Sāmarrā, Iraq, on December 8, 2000. The 29 year old was afterwards killed by police.

Murders
al-Bilal was described as an upper class man, who frequently quarreled with his wife, Najiyya al-Amir. On December 7, al-Bilal threatened to shoot his wife if she made him angry again.

At about 12 in the morning of December 8, several women, apparently friends of Najiyya, came to al-Bilal's house. He yelled at the women to get out, and then grabbed an AK-47 from his wardrobe and started shooting. After killing his wife and two of the women, and wounding two other women, al-Bilal fled. About 15 minutes later, he arrived at a restaurant, where he first began shooting people sitting in chairs outside the restaurant, before entering the building, continuing to shoot. 10 people were killed and 20 were wounded at the restaurant. Afterwards he left the building and started pacing through the streets, shooting people at random, killing seven people and wounding nine others. When police arrived at the scene, al-Bilal shot at them, wounding two before being killed by a burst of gunfire. In total the shooting had lasted for about 30 minutes.

20 people were killed instantly, while 33 others were brought to hospitals, where two of them died within 24 hours. Four more people died of their injuries in the following days, with the last of the victims dying in early January 2001.