MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian Rules umpire Leigh Haussen has been banned from officiating in the opening round of next season because he wore an Osama bin Laden costume at a function, the Australian Football League said on Monday.
Haussen dressed up as the founder of the al Qaeda militant group, who was killed in 2011 in a U.S. special operations raid, in September at an end-of-season celebration for AFL match officials in a private room at a Melbourne restaurant, where the theme was "characters from the 2000s".
