Posted on 05/26/2006 4:09:08 AM PDT by yankeedame
Coach killed 'for wearing shorts'
From: Reuters From correspondents in Baghdad
May 26, 2006
THE coach of the Iraq tennis team and two players have been shot dead by armed gunmen in Baghdad, the Iraqi Olympic Committee chief said today.
According to eye witnesses, the three men were killed because they were wearing shorts. "Armed men assassinated the trainer, Ahmed Rachid, and two players, Nasser Ali Hatem and Wissam Adel Odah on Thursday afternoon in the Saidiya district (of Baghdad)," committee secretary-general Amer Jabbar said.
Witnesses said that a Sunni militant group issued a warning a few days before the attack, forbidding the wearing of shorts.
One witness, who requested anonymity, said: "The three men were driving in a car and dropped off some washing at a launderette when they were stopped by the gunmen, who had seen they were in shorts.
"The coach and players were stopped by the armed group. Two of them got out of the car and were shot with a bullet in the head. The third was killed in the car.
Advertisement: "The gunmen took the body out of the car and threw it on top of the other two bodies before stealing the car." This is not the first time that sportsmen have been targeted in Iraq.
On May 17 a group of 15 members of the Iraq tae kwon do team were taken hostage between Fallujah and Ramadi to the west of Baghdad as they returned Amman in Jordan.
The kidnappers demanded a ransom of $US100,000 ($131,690) for their release, Iraqi Olympic Committee. member Jamal Abdel Karim said.
And on February 25, former national boxing champion Jasseb Rahma was shot dead in front of his family in the town of Bassorah.
Very true. They will never get along with anybody.
I thought being covered totally was just being imposed on women because according to Koran's New International Version a skin is considered a sexual organ... perhaps there has been so many gay terrorists/muzzies lately that they even want to preserve men's skin... sarc//
Grand theft billabong
And they live in the $^%&@#! desert no less, you would think that after all these centuries they would figure out that layers of dark clothes that women have to wear IS STUPID!!!
You know...at this point...you can understand why Saddam had to be absolutely ruthless. You have to walk into neighborhoods...kill a mullah or two...break some legs...and basically forget about democracy. I don't think our long-term plans for the Iraqis will fix anything in the country today. These dimwits have to be threaten each and everyday...to make them civiliazed. We are wasting our time there now.
Islam amazes me more and more every day. Shorts.
>"The gunmen took the body out of the car and threw it on top of the other two bodies before stealing the car." <
Here's the reason these men were killed. The murderers wanted their car, and used the victims' clothing as an excuse.
I find the idea that this was a Sunni group rather odd. They aren't usually very religious.
Unbelievable.
Agreed...makes you wonder what percentage of the population there dies of old age.
"They" didn't have Kalashnikov model 47 semi-automatic rifles nor cell phone triggers for IEDs....but I guess those are okay because they effectively carry the fight for freedom against The Great Satan.
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Satanic death cultists.
These genetically inferior people, gullible enough to believe in the most evil belief system in existence today, do not belong in society.
Is-slime must be de-listed as a religion and assigned its proper designation of "Hate Group" and be dealt with accordingly. Close all camouflaged weapons factories in the USA known as mosques.
If these three men had been seen butchering their wives they probably would have been left alone.
It doesn't matter what you believe, say, or do, somewhere there is an islamofamist group that will kill you for it.
Good old democratic Iraq exercizing its democratic right to mob rule.
(See also The USS Cole, The World Trade Center, and numerous beheadings on videotape.)
Only in the Middle East could someone be gunned down for wearing shorts. What a place!
And the militias are being targeted by the government now. If there were eyewitnesses to this, as mentioned, these shooters' days are probably numbered.
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