Jan Jalal Karapetian, a 19-year-old university student, was killed, when a suicide bomber exploded his car in Al-Ghadir district in Baghdad among people who were celebrating the victory of the Iraqi national soccer team. The Iraqi team defeated the South Korean team and reached the final match to compete with the Saudi Arabian team for the Asian nations' cup. Karapetian was standing in front of his house when the explosion happened. In the final match the Iraqi team won the cup and the Iraqi government was forced to declare curfew to avoid terrorist acts during public celebrations of this victory which is the first in the history of the Iraqi soccer. It is worth mentioning that since the US-UK invasion of Iraq in 2003, 28 Iraqi Armenians were killed in military operations and terrorist acts in the country. 23 others were kidnapped, 20 of them returned to their families after paying ransoms, fate of other two people are still unknown, the body of the third kidnapped was returned to his family.
Ara S. Ashjian
Baghdad, Iraq
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