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May 16, 2003
Soccer's Return To Baghdad Offers 90 Minutes Of Escape

WaPo brings us a story of returning normalcy.

"This is not a game for you only, but for all of Iraqi sports," Raad Hamoudi, the Iraqi national soccer team's star goalkeeper of the 1980s, told his old team, Police, before it took the field in the first professional match in Iraq since the war ended. "I want you to forget the hatred and any vengeance you may have in your heart. I want you to think about the present and the future."
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Posted By Alan at May 16, 2003 11:18 PM | TrackBack
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How dare they report this!!! Don't they know that the Jessica story is so much more important?

This is actually a fine thing. I hope they get all their teams in play as soon as possible...and I mean on the soccer field.

Posted by: R. McLeod at May 17, 2003 02:43 AM

ditto

Posted by: atomicdog at May 17, 2003 08:02 AM
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