Bodies Of Kidnapped Iraqi Athletes Found

(RFE/RL) June 15, 2007 -- Police in Iraq have found the bodies of 13 members of the national Tae Kwon-do team who were kidnapped last year on their way from Baghdad to Jordan.

Colonel Tareq al-Dulaimi, head of security for the western Al-Anbar governorate, said the corpses were found near a highway between the towns of Rutba and Al-Ramadi.


Militants kidnapped 15 members of the team in May 2006. The fate of the other two members is not known.


(AFP)

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