BNP Paribas sponsors prestigious tennis match in fallen hero’s state

CFP ^ | May 17, 2005 | Judi McLeod

[MikeEdwards]

Difficult enough to believe that BNP Paribas, Saddam’s favourite bank, would be the major sponsor of world tennis, including the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris.

BNP, which backed a regime that tortured athletes, is now the proud partner of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). Saddam’s psychopathic son, Uday, in charge of Olympic sporting in Iraq, had an obsession with tennis.

But that BNP Paribas would sponsor the prestigious Davis Cup match in South Carolina is something that must cause the souls of all the athletes that died under Saddam & Son to turn in their graves.

To sponsor a tennis match in the home state of the late Army Capt. Kimberly N. Hampton, a tennis champion in her own right, underlines the hypocrisy of BNP Paribas.

Only 27 years old at the time of her death, Capt. Hampton died on Jan. 2, 2005 when the OH-58 Kiowa Warrior helicopter she was piloting was shot down by enemy ground fire near Fallujah, Iraq.

The Commander of the Delta Troop in the 1st Squadron of the 17th Cavalry Regiment in Iraq, Capt. Hampton was in her second term of military service to the U.S.A. when she was shot down.

In civilian life, Capt. Hampton was an honors graduate from Presbyterian College--who never lost a tennis match. She was the first woman pilot to die in Iraq and the first woman to die in combat in Iraq from North Carolina. . . . .

[raybbr]

BNP has been sponsoring this arrogant tournament for years. They deserve each other. The French think it's the only tournament that matters. It's a tough tournament but it's not the most prestigious. IMO

[kaktuskid]

Parent company of Bank of The West

[SC Swamp Fox]

This article is terribly written.

Where is the tournament being held? In what city? When?

Was Capt. Hampton from North Carolina or South Carolina?
This article says both.