VIDEO LINK BELOW: The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former US President George W Bush has found himself on the receiving end of a shoe-throwing attack.
Muntadar al-Zaidi was speaking about Iraqi war victims at a news conference in Paris, but managed to duck in time.
Media reports said the attacker was an exiled Iraqi journalist who defended US policy and accused Zaidi of “working for dictatorship in Iraq”.
After a brief scuffle in the audience, Zaidi quipped: “He stole my technique.”
The AP news agency said Zaidi’s brother, Maithan, chased the attacker in the Paris audience and pelted him – with a shoe – as he ran from the room.
Muntadar al-Zaidi’s protest in Baghdad in December 2008 made him a hero in the eyes of many and sparked a spate of shoe-throwing attacks at politicians in several parts of the world.
As he hurled his shoes, Zaidi shouted at Mr Bush: “This is a goodbye kiss, you dog… from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.”
He was convicted of assaulting a foreign leader, and served nine months of a 12-month prison sentence.
After his release in September, he said he was tortured while in jail.
At his appearance in Paris, organized by the Arab Press Club, he said he was receiving medical treatment in Geneva for broken teeth, fractures and other injuries he sustained.
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(Source: BBC)
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6 Responses
He deserves it!!
Shame it missed him. Imagine if instead of throwing a shoe at Bush had he thrown it at Dictator like Saddam or Putin, this Fat Bum’s family with his brother would be made examples of before their wiped off the planet.
So if broken teeth is what bothers him, he can use Obama’s Government Healthcare to get it fixed 😉
#2,
You ae so correct. The irony is blatant. It’s precisely because of Bush that he was able to throw his shoe at Bush.
I wouldn’t believe a word this guy says. It is a culture of deceit. Remember ‘ol granny Lavan?
While I dont like this guy, and while I think this was a Bush plant sent there to do the deed (as the Bushes are notoriously vindictive), I am glad he threw the shoe at Bush. Bush collapsed America. Clinton did not chop the American tree down. Obama did not chop the American tree down. From 9/11/01 to the Fall of Wall Street, it was on Bush’s watch. And that is not to say Clinton did not have faults or that Obama is worse than an amateur, and a dangerous president.
Bad aim.