Bahrain releases teenage Iraqi soccer player

Iraqi demonstrators hold pictures of soccer player Zulfiqar Naji

By James M. Dorsey

Bahrain has released a teenage Iraqi soccer player detained in April in a crackdown on anti-government protesters in what the government said was a goodwill gesture to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.

Abdulameer Naji, a former professional soccer player and current b…