The International Olympic Committee’s ethics commission has made three recommendations after investigating accusations that Iraq’s Olympic Committee, led by Saddam’s son Odai, brutalized and jailed athletes.
According to the Associated Press the recommendations include formal dissolution of the Iraqi committee, creation of a new Olympic committee and provisions to ensure that no one involved in the abuses be part of the new group.
IOC President Jacques Rogge said the proposals will be submitted to the IOC executive board next week in Madrid Spain.
The committee’s headquarters in Baghdad was largely destroyed during the U.S.-led bombing raids in the early days of the Iraq war.
