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IOC condemns murder of Iraqi athletes
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-06-19 08:23
MADRID - International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge on Monday condemned that the murder of 13 members of the Iraqi taekwondo team was "abhorrent".
He said in a Monday statement: "It is intolerable that athletes become targets in these horrible crimes."
A total of 15 members of the Iraqi taekwondo team were kidnapped in May last year in Fallujah, some 50km from Iraq's capital Baghdad, as they were returning from a competition in Jordanian capital Amman.
Their captors demanded a ransom for their release. But on Friday, police found 13 partly decomposed bodies belonging to team members.
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