"A 1980 visit by officials from the Ministry of Youth, which was in charge of sports, changed everything. Al-Sammak was ordered to work at a swimming pool at a presidential compound in the Baghdad neighborhood of Radwaniyah.
"I refused for two weeks. Then the order came: 'If you don't come with us we will execute you,'" Al-Sammak said."
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"I refused for two weeks. Then the order came: 'If you don't come with us we will execute you,'" Al-Sammak said."
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