Anti-Government Protests Put Iraqi Hosting of Gulf Cup in Question
Soccer officials from the Gulf states and Yemen will visit the Iraqi port city of Basra to inspect its preparations for the hosting of the Gulf Cup in 2013, according to Al Arabiya.
The visit comes amid increasingly strained relations between Iraq and several Gulf states because of Iraqi criticism of the Bahraini crackdown on predominantly Shiite anti-go…
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