The Iraqi media reports on ….BASKETBALL schools, oil and plain SHOCKING stuff….quick update
No mention of Super T or the primaries on the news websites but the U.S. is in the news.
On Alsumaria, the hurricane in the south was one of the four top stories of the “world news.”
The Aswat Aliraq had a feature story on Kurd students who left Iraq to escape Saddam’s wrath and have now returned home. They speak neither Kurdish nor Arabic and are “foreigners in their homeland.”
But…guess what folks…the U.S. did make it to the top story in the sports section because an American basketball coach, Depp Backott, just opened the first women’s basketball school in Sulaimaniya (a city east of Baghdad). 160 girls tried out for the school and 50 got picked.
Kurdishmedia.com carried a shocking piece on the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). And for those of you, who thought that the practice was confined to Africa, think again. The article “Kurdish woman are also victims of circumcision,” is about the frequency of FGM among Kurds in Iraq and Iran. http://www.kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=14522
The Kurds hogged the news on all four websites. Azzaman.com reported that the Kurds have said that they will withdraw from the government if their oil revenue is reduced.
