Iraq -- The coach of Iraq's national karate team was shot and killed by gunmen in Mosul on Friday, according to nytimes.com. Police and sports officials said 45-year-old Izzat Abdullah was shot to death near his house in Mosul, in northern Iraq.
Iraqi sports figures have frequently been kidnapped and killed, many of them during the height of sectarian slayings in 2006.
Insurgents reportedly remain active in Mosul, although the attacks have been less frequent over the past couple of years.
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Extremists With Dumbchucks
The "dumbchucks/rice flail" (nunchaku) for someone as dumb as this - how fitting ...
Story:
A man who called for British troops to be brought back from Iraq in body bags at a demonstration against cartoons said to be offensive to Islam was today found guilty of inciting murder.
The a 24-year-old web designer from north London, is one of four people convicted of various charges following a protest near the Danish embassy, in central London, last February.
It was organised following the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad - including one showing him as a terrorist - in a Danish newspaper. The cartoons were reprinted around Europe.
Following the verdict, the court was told he had previous convictions for offences including causing criminal damage by covering up naked women on advertising posters and having a rice flail martial arts weapon in his car.
Source
Story:
A man who called for British troops to be brought back from Iraq in body bags at a demonstration against cartoons said to be offensive to Islam was today found guilty of inciting murder.
The a 24-year-old web designer from north London, is one of four people convicted of various charges following a protest near the Danish embassy, in central London, last February.
It was organised following the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad - including one showing him as a terrorist - in a Danish newspaper. The cartoons were reprinted around Europe.
Following the verdict, the court was told he had previous convictions for offences including causing criminal damage by covering up naked women on advertising posters and having a rice flail martial arts weapon in his car.
Source
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Terrible News
The skulls, bones and tattered clothing of a team of Iraqi martial arts experts have been found more than a year after they disappeared, presumed kidnapped, in an al-Qaeda stronghold west of Baghdad.
At least 13 bodies were found in a ditch out in the desert about 60 miles west of Ramadi in Anbar province, one of Iraq's most violent areas and where al-Qaeda and Sunni Arab insurgents are battling American and Iraqi forces. Plastic athletic sandals lay scattered on the ground near the bodies. All had been shot.
The men were members of a private sports club that hopes to one day send members to the Olympics.
The 15 tae kwon do experts were abducted in May 2006 as they were travelling by bus through the Anbar desert on their way to a training camp in Jordan.
Source
At least 13 bodies were found in a ditch out in the desert about 60 miles west of Ramadi in Anbar province, one of Iraq's most violent areas and where al-Qaeda and Sunni Arab insurgents are battling American and Iraqi forces. Plastic athletic sandals lay scattered on the ground near the bodies. All had been shot.
The men were members of a private sports club that hopes to one day send members to the Olympics.
The 15 tae kwon do experts were abducted in May 2006 as they were travelling by bus through the Anbar desert on their way to a training camp in Jordan.
Source
Monday, July 17, 2006
Still no sign
Apparently there's still no sign of the taekwondo team that was kidnapped in Irak two months ago.
Story:
Two months after 17 men were abducted, relatives watch the morgue and grasp at clues, however flimsy the source.
The athletes disappeared two months ago, as if swallowed by the desert.
In all, there were 17 men — youthful taekwondo competitors and coaches on their way to the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, hoping for visas that would land them in a Las Vegas tournament.
They were traveling in two of the taxis that negotiate one of the most dangerous stretches of road in the world: the searing desert highway between Baghdad and the border.
Source
Story:
Two months after 17 men were abducted, relatives watch the morgue and grasp at clues, however flimsy the source.
The athletes disappeared two months ago, as if swallowed by the desert.
In all, there were 17 men — youthful taekwondo competitors and coaches on their way to the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, hoping for visas that would land them in a Las Vegas tournament.
They were traveling in two of the taxis that negotiate one of the most dangerous stretches of road in the world: the searing desert highway between Baghdad and the border.
Source
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Political jujitsu
Well I'll be darned...
I've been doing that art for 30 years, but didn't know there was such a thing :-)
Seems you learn something new every day.
Story:
Japan -- Last week, in a brilliant parting shot, (Prime Minister) Koizumi announced the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Iraq and introduced legislation to elevate the Japan Defense Agency to full ministry status.
Japan's jujitsu prime minister turned popular opposition to the Iraq war into unprecedented levels of support for the Japanese military and leaves office at a time when a majority of Japanese now favor revision of the pacifist constitution. In five short years, Koizumi created a more muscular Japan with more security options than at any time since the 1940s.
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I've been doing that art for 30 years, but didn't know there was such a thing :-)
Seems you learn something new every day.
Story:
Japan -- Last week, in a brilliant parting shot, (Prime Minister) Koizumi announced the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Iraq and introduced legislation to elevate the Japan Defense Agency to full ministry status.
Japan's jujitsu prime minister turned popular opposition to the Iraq war into unprecedented levels of support for the Japanese military and leaves office at a time when a majority of Japanese now favor revision of the pacifist constitution. In five short years, Koizumi created a more muscular Japan with more security options than at any time since the 1940s.
Source
Friday, May 26, 2006
Karate-bridge to Iraq
Karate isn't just about breaking bricks. Japan wants to use the martial art to build bridges with Iraq.
The government announced Thursday it will invite eight members of the Iraqi Karate Federation from May 28 for a week and a half of training in the martial art's birthplace.
Source
The government announced Thursday it will invite eight members of the Iraqi Karate Federation from May 28 for a week and a half of training in the martial art's birthplace.
Source
Friday, May 19, 2006
Hope they're ok
Iraq: The police chief of the second biggest city, Basra, survived an assassination attempt amid a bitter public dispute with the local governor and intense Shi'ite faction fighting.
Officials were trying to secure the release of 15 members of the national tae kwon do martial arts squad who were kidnapped as they drove through a desert region.
Source
Officials were trying to secure the release of 15 members of the national tae kwon do martial arts squad who were kidnapped as they drove through a desert region.
Source
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Tougher than the rest
You have 'tough guys', and then you have guys that are tough. And whatever side you're on you can not help but respect these guys for their determination, willpower and fighting spirit.
Story:
You would think that soldiers who lost an arm or leg in combat would have had enough of the front lines, and would be glad to come home for good. But they are doing just the opposite.
(But) duty takes many forms, and it may not mean combat.
"First I saw my left (hand), and thought, well great, that's gone. And I looked over at my right hand and that was gone, and I thought well... there's both of them," said Marine Sergeant Sean Wright.
Wright was injured in the battle for Fallujah, but he was so determined to remain a Marine.
He found a new job. The sergeant who lost both his hands is now teaching martial arts to his fellow Marines.
Even though he knows he will never return to the battlefield, he still longs to be back in Iraq.
Source
Story:
You would think that soldiers who lost an arm or leg in combat would have had enough of the front lines, and would be glad to come home for good. But they are doing just the opposite.
(But) duty takes many forms, and it may not mean combat.
"First I saw my left (hand), and thought, well great, that's gone. And I looked over at my right hand and that was gone, and I thought well... there's both of them," said Marine Sergeant Sean Wright.
Wright was injured in the battle for Fallujah, but he was so determined to remain a Marine.
He found a new job. The sergeant who lost both his hands is now teaching martial arts to his fellow Marines.
Even though he knows he will never return to the battlefield, he still longs to be back in Iraq.
Source
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