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national team. 1017 He told AFP that rivalry between various sports officials was the reason behind the threats. 1018 • 15 July 2006: Gunmen stormed a meeting of sports officials and abducted 30 persons, including the head and the deputy head of Iraq’s Olympic Committee and the chairmen of the Iraqi Taekwondo and Boxing Federations. 1019 The Times reported in October that of the 30 kidnapped, two were bodyguards whose bodies were found dumped on a street. Others were released, although Ahmed Al-Hijiya, the head of the Olympic Committee, is still missing. 1020 • 13 July 2006: The coach of Iraq’s national wrestling team, Mohammed Karim Abid Sahib, was murdered. 1021 • 29 May 2006: The coach of Iraq’s national tennis team and two players were killed after extremists distributed leaflets warning people in Sunni neighbourhoods in Baghdad not to wear shorts. 1022 • 24 May 2006: Fifteen members of Iraq’s tae kwon do team were kidnapped between Falluja and Ramadi when driving to a training camp in Jordan. The kidnappers reportedly demanded US $100,000 for their release. 1023 • 14 May 2006: Mannar Mudhafar, one of the best soccer players on the popular Zawra team, was shot to death in Baghdad. 1024 • January 2006: Female basketball player Samira Kubaissy was killed after being accused by extremists of un-Islamic behaviour. 1025 • 25 January 2006: Jasseb Rahma, a former Iraqi wrestling champion, was gunned down in front of his family in Basrah. 1026 1017 The Telegraph, Victorious Iraqi soccer chief driven into hiding by threats, 3 August 2006, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/03/wirq03.xml. 1018 Play The Game, Athletes and sports officials in Iraq under constant threat of murder or abduction, 10 August 2006, http://www.playthegame.org/News/Up To Date/Athletes_and_sports_officials_in_Iraq_ under_constant_threat_of_murder_and_abduction.aspx. 1019 AP, Gunmen kidnap Iraq’s Olympic chief, 15 July 2006, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2006- 07/15/content_641696.htm. 1020 Owen Slot, Iraqi sport in state of terror after gunmen draw blood, The Times, 10 October 2006, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/article667015.ece. 1021 Joshua Partlow, Iraq Given Control of Province, The Washington Post, 14 July 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/13/AR2006071301545.html. 1022 BBC News, Iraqis shot “for wearing shorts”, 26 May 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/ 5020804.stm. 1023 Ibid. 1024 IRIN, Iraq: Athletes targeted for sectarian, religious reasons, see above footnote 648. 1025 Ibid. 1026 Middle East Times, Regional roundups: Former Iraqi wrestling champion shot dead, 3 March 2006, http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060227-092345-4862r. 196
Annex IX: Attacks on Palestinian Refugees in Iraq The following provides an overview of attacks on Palestinian refugees in Iraq since September 2006. Please note that – in contrast to the other Annexes, the reports of attacks on Palestinians were gathered by UNHCR from private sources, and to the extent possible verified with the UN or other agencies. As states earlier, this list is not exhaustive. • 28 February 2007: Reportedly in response to the attack on Al-Doura neighbourhood and the discovery of the badly beaten body of the Palestinian male killed on 26 February (mentioned below), 47 Palestinians fled to the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing of Al-Walid. By month’s end, there were 471 Palestinians in Al-Walid. • 25 February 2007: There were reports that Mehdi Army militiamen attacked the Al- Sihha compound in Baghdad’s Al-Doura neighbourhood, raiding apartments, beating and robbing Palestinians. Two Palestinians were reportedly abducted. One was later released claiming he had been badly beaten. The badly beaten body of the second was reportedly found the next day. Photos were shared with UNHCR; however the person in the photos is so badly beaten his face is unrecognizable. • 22 February 2007: The home of a Palestinian man in Baghdad’s Ghazaliya District was reportedly raided by Ministry of Interior Special Forces and he and his family were beaten and robbed. He and six other Iraqis were detained. While the Iraqi detainees were released the next day, the Palestinian man remained in detention in the third brigade camp in Al-Amiriya, having been reportedly subjected to severe physical abuse. • 16 February 2007: Three Palestinians were arrested in Baladiyat compound. There were reports that their families, as well as the family of a fourth man, who had been detained several months earlier, were subsequently requested to pay a ransom of US $2,500 for the release of each person by the ISF. Despite the fact that the ransom was paid, the men were not released. The same day, 29 Palestinians arrived at the Iraqi-Syrian border. • 11 February 2007: A Palestinian male from Baladiyat disappeared while driving his taxi. His body was found four days later. In an unrelated incident, another Palestinian male, from Tobji District, was reportedly abducted from his home by members of the Mehdi Army. He was released three days later after being seriously beaten. • 10 February 2007: Thirty-two Palestinians arrived at the Iraqi-Syrian border. • 9 February 2007: A Palestinian male was reportedly stopped and abducted by persons in a black car after leaving his home in Baladiyat. • 8 February 2007: A Palestinian male was reportedly abducted from the street in Al- Doura. The same day, eight Palestinians arrived at the Iraqi-Syrian border. • 7 February 2007: A Palestinian man, whose home had been attacked by mortars on 27 January 2007, was reportedly gunned down and killed along with two Iraqi friends by four masked, armed men. Also, 14 Palestinians arrived at the Iraqi-Syrian border. • 6 February 2007: Fifty-one Palestinians arrived at the Iraqi-Syrian border. • 4 February 2007: A Palestinian man from Tobji District in Baghdad was reportedly arrested by Special Forces of the Ministry of Interior and released the same day after having been severely beaten. • 1 February 2007: A Palestinian man (and father of a child killed in the 13 December 2006 attack on Al-Baladiyat), was stopped on his way to work and taken away at an ISF 197
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military commander in Iraq, General
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to Osama Bin Laden, the Shi’ites
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an international court. 261 Several
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prohibition to kill, lie, commit ad
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government offices, 441 and changin
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security, of transferring hundreds
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after their release. 660 UNAMI HRO
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