Four more released from Iraq Olympic Committee kidnapping

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Four more hostages seized in a dramatic daylight raid on a meeting of the Iraqi Olympic Committee last week have been released, the committee's office manager told AFP.

The four were found in various parts of Baghdad "blindfolded and with their hands tied," Mohammed al-Habash told AFP.

Nine of the 29 people seized in Saturday's deadly raid by gunmen in military uniforms on a club in Baghdad's normally well protected Shiite middle class neighbourhood of Karrada have now been freed.

There was no word on the fate of the other 20 hostages who included the Olympic Committee's chairman Ahmed al-Hejea and other senior sporting officials.

It was not the first attack on Iraq's sporting community. In May, 15 members of the national taekwondo team were kidnapped by Sunni insurgents in Al-Anbar province, west of the capital.

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[uppityperson]

1. that's good, glad to hear some are being released alive

[Ian David]

2. Their captors first made the hostages run, and then swim, then bike home.