Shame on you, African Football Confederation...shame on you!

[MrCoffee]

This is utterly absurd. In case you missed it, the Togo national football team pulled out of the African Cup of Nations after their team bus was ATTACKED BY MACHINE GUN WIELDING MILITANTS and three people were killed. In response, the African Football Confederation has banned Togo from participating in the next two ACN tournaments.

http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/worldcup/story/Shame-heaped-on-death-for-African-soccer

Sports fans, grab a pen and paper or log into e-mail and send this message to the heartless bureaucrats who run African football: "Sirs, shame on you for totally mishandling the terrorist attack on Togo's team."

Their decision this weekend to ban Togo from the next two editions of the Africa Cup of Nations, punishing the shell-shocked squad for pulling out of this year's competition, heaps injustice upon death.

It multiplies the suffering of Togolese footballers still haunted by the machine-gunning of their bus on Jan. 8, as they were en route to their matches. The attack killed three people, wounded eight and rendered utterly meaningless and irrelevant everything that happened on-field in the tournament that ended this Sunday.

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Were the machine gun wielding militants terrorists or rapid fins of a rival team?

It's hard to tell the difference sometimes.

[MrCoffee]

2. It was an Angolese separatist group

The Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda, and there are reports that they warned the tournament organizers of the potential for violence if matches were held in Cabinda province.

[KamaAina]

3. They should join another confederation

in the same way that Israel competes in UEFA (Europe) because their Arab neighbors don't want them in the Asian confederation.

They could try Oceania. With Australia's departure for Asia, it'd likely come down to them and new Zealand.