(ATR) - There is no remorse from Iraqi athletes over the demise of Uday Hussein, the fallen president of the National Olympic Committee, killed with his brother Qusay, in a shoot-out with U.S. troops in northern Iraq.
"Finally he got what he deserves, because of what he did to the athletes of Iraq", Mustafa Saraj tells Around the Rings. Saraj is in the U.S. as leader of a team of Iraqi archers who competed at the just-ended world championships in New York.
Hussein, 39, was feared and despised by Iraq athletes for torture he carried out against Iraqi athletes says Saraj.
Hussein used the National Olympic Committee headquarters in Baghdad as a center of terror. The IOC Ethics Commission recommended the committee's suspension in May based on complaints by athletes who said they had been tortured and abused by Hussein and his forces.
Saraj says the news about Hussein's death will help with the rebuilding effort underway for sport in Iraq, the former domain of Saddam Hussein's elder son.
Since the end of the full-scale war, a team from the IOC, U.S. Olympic Committee, U.S. Department of State and the Olympic Council of Asia has been at work on the initial stages of rebuilding the NOC.
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