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[petermarcus]

Iraq and sports:

Iraq is going to the Olympics in soccer/football for the first time in Iraqi history (clean article -- congrats to them!):
http://www.cpa-iraq.org/pressreleases/20040513_football.html

A Sports Illustrated article from a year ago, about the Iraqi sports program, headed (at the time) by Uday Hussein. The descriptions of the torture of losing athletes are not for the squeamish:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/news/2003/03/24/son_of_saddam/


(Edit: some descriptive wording added)

Comments

[teaser.livejournal.com]

I'm too scared to click on those links. I imagine they're playing soccer with a head or something.