Iraqi Reporter Throws Shoes At Bush - Video

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Al-Zaidi has received vocal support from fellow Iraqis who have demanded his release, and similar support was shown from Bethlehem to Montreal on Thursday.

In Bethlehem's Manger Square, in the West Bank, several dozen Palestinian journalists took off their shoes to protest against al-Zaidi's detention and carried signs saying "Bush deserved it".

And in the Canadian city of Montreal, Block the Empire, an anti-war protest group that regularly criticises Bush's foreign policy, invited Canadians to hurl their footwear at the US consulate in the city on Saturday in solidarity with al-Zaidi.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/mi...353218656.html

Here's an opportunity for everybody in Canada to recycle their old trainers for a productive cause.

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Head of Palestinian clan offers Iraqi shoe-throwing journalist a bride

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Mmmmmm, ain't she a humdinger !! Should perhaps cut down on the Charlie though.

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BAGHDAD — The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush intends to press charges against the people who he says beat him as he was taken into custody, said a member of the Iraqi parliament who's urging his release.

Bahaa al Araji, a member of parliament from a party tied to Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr, said journalist Muntathar al Zaidi earlier on Friday had presented his case that he was beaten to an Iraqi judge.

Zaidi's outburst at a news conference that Bush held with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki on Sunday has sparked rallies all around the country, and now Sunni leaders are lionizing the Shiite journalist.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/58223.html

Anybody in custody has the protection of the law by right, including those in countries occupied by Guantanamo George.

"We should call him Muntathar al Iraqi — not Muntathar al Zaidi; all of Iraq is his tribe now," Inizi said.

...and so it came to be.

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Anybody in custody has the protection of the law by right, including those in countries occupied by Guantanamo George.



...and so it came to be.

how islamic thinking of you

islam does not have the same rights, yet here you are arguing for western rights in an islamic country.

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Yurt;

how islamic thinking of you

Let's wait and see what 'Zion-think' has done to Muntathar al Iraqi's physical person.

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Stampede for 'Bush shoe' creates 100 new jobs

Their deployment as a makeshift missile robbed President George Bush of his dignity and landed their owner in jail. But the world's most notorious pair of shoes have yielded an unexpected bonanza for a Turkish shoemaker.

Ramazan Baydan, owner of the Istanbul-based Baydan Shoe Company, has been swamped with orders from across the world, after insisting that his company produced the black leather shoes which the Iraqi journalist Muntazar al-Zaidi threw at Bush during a press conference in Baghdad last Sunday.

Baydan has recruited an extra 100 staff to meet orders for 300,000 pairs of Model 271 - more than four times the shoe's normal annual sale - following an outpouring of support for Zaidi's act, which was intended as a protest, but led to his arrest by Iraqi security forces.

Orders have come mainly from the US and Britain, and from neighbouring Muslim countries, he said.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008...orge-bush-shoe

How's that for ingratitude ? The US government goes right out of its way to please the Turks by refusing to recognise the Armenian Genocide and they go and produce more shoes for Bush-whacking.

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Update;

The trial of the Iraqi man who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush earlier this month has been postponed.

Muntadar al-Zaidi, 29, was expected to appear in court on Wednesday charged with assaulting a foreign leader, and faced a maximum sentence of 15 years.

But after an appeal, a higher court is now deciding whether he should face the lesser charge of insulting a leader.

The reporter achieved global notoriety by his actions, which were celebrated by thousands in the Arab world.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/7804856.stm

In the light of current Israeli brutalities there would almost certainly have been major incidents if the trial was held. I anticipate that any conviction bringing a punishment regarded as unfair will also light the touchpaper.

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she is too old, over 10 :P

Head of Palestinian clan offers Iraqi shoe-throwing journalist a bride