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.
TROP
The Religion Of Pants?
Dress code ping. . .
These people are certifiable
Pretty ridiculous isnt it? Thi is what we have to look forward to when the Mussies run the world.
I don't see how we'll ever get these cretins into the 21st century.
Hey, they were warned....
Seriously though, how can anyone expect these people to assimilate when they consider this normal behavior and a justifiable killing?
"I don't see how we'll ever get these cretins into the 21st century."
we won't, but they can start exterminating the ones that refuse, do it publicly and IMO
Next thing you know, the terrorists will be killing folks and stealing their sneakers. I'd say they are well on the way to becoming a civilized democratic republic like we are. As soon as the murders in the country get to be 20-25% as high as what we have, they will have made it. Then the MSM and Dims can stop howling because all will be as it should be.
Too damned many Islamic lunatics needin killin for there EVER to be peace in that land.....
Beginning to look like the only way to "save the village", is to first defeat/destroy it and start anew.
Semper Fi
" Witnesses said that a Sunni militant group issued a warning a few days before the attack, forbidding the wearing of shorts"
I could get "behind" this if it was a fatwa against fat people in those spandex bicycle shorts
What does anyone expect from the Islamic Republic of Iraq?
It's a slow process that calls for a steel resolve.
It will be done one body bag at a time.
there comes a time when you just have to replow the fields to get a better crop
Muslims really, really must like murdering people.
The number of reasons you can killed around Islam is truly staggering.
Shorts?
"It will be done one body bag at a time."
If we weren't so PC, we could get it over with in a hurry.
Unbelievable. But I guess they didn't have shorts in the 7th century, so therefore shorts are eeevilll.
I read something a couple of days ago about Iran trying to impose what they called the "Islamic dress code," which seemed to mean huge mounds of fabric and dark dull colors for everyone.
These virulent Sunnis should be wiped off the face of the earth. They are no more suited for 21 Century society than the bird flu is. Let's let the Shiites take care of them, as we should have long ago. They know that the way to deal with the Sunnis is the same way the Old Testament Israelites were told by God to deal with evil people: Kill all of them and their cattle. That would usually buy a generation or two of peace. Peace will never come to these backward places through logic and diplomacy because the people there don't have the brains to be logical.
So, Allah praises murder and auto theft over shorts???
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