Bastards

Today, in Iraq, a popular soccer player who was a member of the country's Olympic team was kidnapped in Baghdad. Ghanim Ghudayer, 22, considered one of the best players in Baghdad's Air Force Club, was snatched on Sunday evening by unknown assailants in the al-Amil neighbourhood in the west part of the capital where he lives.

Samir Kadhim, head of the Air Force Club, said the player had been preparing to go to a training session when he was intercepted by the assailants in two vehicles. Kadhim said Ghudayer had recently signed a one-year contract with a club in Syria and had been planning to leave Iraq within a few days.

Oh COME ON. It's bad enough that the damn terrorists target our military, international aid workers, the Iraqi police, Iraqi politicians, etc. And I know that they have killed Iraqi civilians in the pursuit of some unknown jihadi goal. All of this is outrageous and although I am against state-administered capital punishment, I, as a non-state entity, would be happy to kill any of these guys. Really. (Well, maybe.)

But because this is a soccer blog, allow me to express my specific outrage (or just rage) at this senseless, completely pointless violence. What did the terrorists think this would do -- make Iraq lose more games? THAT would show those infidels. Grrr.

They better give him back.