History is being made by Olympians and school children on every continent planting trees to create a 'wreath' around our planet to honour the Olympic homecoming to Greece, and spread a message of peace and goodwill. Organized by the Athens Environmental Foundation (AEF), the planting will ripple around the world until the Games begin in Athens, in August 2004.

In Baghdad school children and Olympians Mohamed Taher, Fakher Al-Jamaly and Hassan Bahriya planted their tree at the Al Jadriya College, in the presence of members of the Coalition Provisional Authority and Iraq's Olympic Committee executive board.

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