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.
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