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CAPE TOWN, June 2 (Reuters) - FIFA vice president Issa Hayatou said the arrest of officials from world soccer's governing body in Zurich last week at the behest of the U.S. Justice department should have been carried out on American soil.
He questioned the timing of the arrest of seven officials in dramatic dawn raids last Wednesday, on the eve of the contentious FIFA Congress where his close ally Sepp Blatter was re-elected.
"When people come at 6am to arrest 10 of yours, who are sleeping in their rooms, and with all the resultant hype, you cannot say FIFA is not shaken.