Coach [of Iraq’s tennis team] Hussein Ahmed Rashid and players Nasser Ali Hatem and Wissam Adel Auda were killed in the al-Saidiya district of the capital.
Witnesses said the three were dressed in shorts and were killed days after militants issued a warning forbidding the wearing of shorts.
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[A witness] said leaflets had been recently distributed in the area warning residents not to wear shorts.
Maybe the killers just didn’t like tennis.
Last week, 15 members of Iraq’s taekwondo team were kidnapped between Falluja and Ramadi, west of Baghdad, said a member of the Iraqi Olympic Committee. The kidnappers have demanded $100,000 for their release.
Then again, maybe not.
It’s nice to see such great progress being made in Iraq. We’ve done a find job, eh?