Public sports in post-war Iraq

A bodyguard of Paul Bremer, US top civil administrator in Iraq, secures Baghdad's indoor Olympic Hall as Iraqi wrestlers train in the background, on Feb 5, 2004. Bremer announced that the Iraqi wrestling team will fly to the United States to train at the US Olympic facilities in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Bremer reconfirmed a June 30 deadline for the transfer of political power to an Iraqi authority. [Photo/icpress]

An Iraqi plays table tennis as US soldiers from Bravo company, 1st Battallion, 38 regiment infantry, patrol at a market area in Baquba, North of Baghdad, on Dec 3, 2007. US military prisons in Iraq hold around 2,000 Al-Qaida militants, mostly locals, detained in security operations across the battered country, US general Major General Douglas Stone said today. [Photo/icpress]