Top Iraqi footballer kidnapped

Police said today that a popular Iraqi football player who was a member of the country’s Olympic team had been kidnapped in Baghdad.

Ghanim Ghudayer, 22, considered one of the best players in Baghdad’s Air Force Club, was kidnapped last night by unknown attackers in the al-Amil neighbourhood in the west of the capital where he lives, police 1st Lt. Mutaz Salahiddin said.