Iraq’s basketball team bids Arab tournament farewell

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraq’s basketball team on Thursday evening went out of the 18th Arab tournament hosted in Tunis with four defeats, after losing the fourth match to 62/65 to Saudi Arabia. “The team is supposed to arrive in Beirut on Friday on the way back to Baghdad,” Nabil Mohammed, the team’s coach, told IraqiNews.com. The Iraqis lost the previous three matches 51/95 to Tunisia, 59/70 to Libya and 38/84 to Algeria. MH (P)/AmR 1