Displaced Iraqis live under stands in soccer stadium (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)

Published on: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:31:00 GMT

KIRKUK, Iraq ? Qader Abdullah Rasoul visited Kirkuk Stadium the day it opened and thought it beautiful. The lush turf was newly laid, and the stands were smooth concrete, steeply tiered to seat tens of thousands of soccer fans. Odai Hussein himself, son of Saddam, attended, and on that day in 1986 Iraq's national team thumped Saudi Arabia 2-1. More »