Police say gunmen in camouflaged Iraqi police uniforms stormed the Iraqi Olympic Committee's Baghdad office as officials were holding a meeting. Two guards were shot dead and some 20 were abducted together with the officials.
Others seized included the deputy head of the Olympic committee, Ammar Jabbar al-Saadi; the chairman of the Taekwondo Federation, Jamal Abdul-Karim; and the chief of the Boxing Federation Union, Bashar Mustafa.
The kidnappings come a day after Iraq's national wrestling team pulled out of a tournament in the United Arab Emirates because their Sunni coach was shot dead by gunmen in Baghdad.
(Reuters, AP, dpa, AFP)
RFE/RL Iraq Report
RFE/RL Iraq Report
