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Thursday, November 02, 2006
Baghdad is a lot like New York -- except
Baghdad is a lot like New York City. The daily explosions, the crime rate, the over-rated Broadway shows, the kidnapping of coaches and athletes:
Gunmen yesterday abducted the secretary general of Iraq's national basketball federation and another man who coached blind athletes, police said.
Khalid Nejim and Issam Khalef, who were snatched from a Baghdad youth club in broad daylight, are the latest in a line of national sporting figures to be targeted by militants.
Last month an Iraqi international soccer referee was kidnapped, and days earlier gunmen killed a 37-year-old former national volleyball player, Naseer Shamil.
Ghanim Ghudayer, a popular Iraqi soccer player, was also kidnapped in September. He has not been heard from since.
I'm guessing David Stern is very glad he doesn't work in Baghdad.
