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On the night of Monday 21 July 2003, Nawaf al-Zaidan, a businessman and close friend of Saddam's family (and also being a part of a family known for falsely claiming to be 'cousins' of Saddam's family, rather being from the same tribe [3]) who had been sheltering Uday, Qusay, Qusay's 14-year-old son Mustafa and their bodyguard Abdul-Samad in ...
This is a list of association footballers who died due to football-related incidents.. The primary causes of on-field deaths have evolved over time. Improvements in infection control and emergency surgery since the early days of organised soccer have mostly eliminated the fatal complications that were once common after routine sporting injuries.
After the game, a suicide bomber killed 30 football fans who were celebrating the semi-final win over South Korea and this almost led to the Iraqi team withdrawing from the final, [22] but they decided to go on in honour of the dead and succeeded in doing that after defeating Saudi Arabia 1–0 in the final, a game that they dominated from ...
This is a list of Iraq international footballers, comprising players to have represented the Iraq national football team since its formation in 1957. [ 1 ] This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
Uday Saddam Hussein [1] [2] (Arabic: عدي صدام حسين; 18 June 1964 – 22 July 2003) was an Iraqi politician, military commander and businessman, and the elder son of Saddam Hussein. He held numerous positions as a sports chairman, military officer and businessman, and was the head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee , Iraq Football ...
Edison David, born in Iraq, Iraqi Assyrian football player who played for Iraq and Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya in the 1950s and 1960s; Kadhem Sharif, Iraqi world-class wrestler and weightlifter; Hana Shezifi (born 1943), Israeli Olympic runner; Abdul-Razzaq Ahmed Taha, Iraqi chess player and former president of Iraqi Chess Federation. Thamer Yousif ...
Soccer Iraq launched on 11 March 2015 with the aim of creating an English-based website covering Iraq's national football team, the Lions of Mesopotamia, [1] as well as the domestic club competitions and the nation's foreign-based players. [2] In 2017, Soccer Iraq assisted the Iraq Football Association (IFA) in the process of verifying the IFA ...
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi (Arabic: أبو عمر البغدادي, romanized: ʾAbū ʿUmar al-Baghdādī; / ˈ ɑː b uː ˈ oʊ m ɑːr ɑː l b ɑː ɡ ˈ d ɑː d i / ⓘ AH-boo OH-mar ahl bahg-DAHD-ee; 1964 – 18 April 2010), born Hamid Dawud Mohamed Khalil al-Zawi (Arabic: حَمِيدُ دَاوُدَ مُحَمَّدُ خَلِيلِ ٱلزَّاوِيِّ, romanized: Ḥamīd Dāwud ...