The Smell of Victory in Iraq
Jul 30th, 2007 at 8:22 am by Susie
This is so sad. (You may not remember, but the mullahs in Iraq have even been dictating exactly how devout Muslims may play soccer.) Who can blame him for not wanting to go home?
Mahmoud scored the winning goal in Iraq’s 1-0 Asian Cup final win over Saudi Arabia on Sunday, yet he feared for his life if he went home to celebrate the stunning victory, and said he would not be returning to the war-torn country.
“I don’t want the Iraqi people to be angry with me,” he said. But, “If I go back with the team, anybody could kill me or try to hurt me.
“One of my closest friends, they (the authorities) came to arrest him, and for one year neither me nor his family knew where he is.”
