Badran Majid (died 1 March 1991) was an officer of the Iraqi Republican Guard. He was killed by a group of AWOL US Army soldiers during the March Uprisings in 1991.
Biography[]
Badran Majid was born to a family of Sunni Muslim Arabs in Ba'athist Iraq, and he joined the Iraqi Republican Guard, the elite branch of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi Army. In March 1991 he was sent to Karbala to put down unrest amongst the Shi'ites there, and he met US Army Major Archie Gates. He complied with the ceasefire agreement and had his men help the Americans in taking the $23,000,000 stash of stolen Kuwaiti gold bullion from the bunker, but he executed an Iraqi woman in front of them. Majid argued with Gates when Gates asked him to leave the town, and he accidentally shot his AK-47 while struggling with Gates, hitting him in the leg. This started a firefight, and Majid was shot in the back of the head and killed.