[Fresh Ink] Iraqi journalist hurls shoes at Bush during news conference

[Richard Menec]

okay, on a more cheery note, see the video:
<http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=bush+shoes+&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#q=bush%20shoes%20iraq&hl=en&emb=0>

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McClatchy Newspapers            December 14, 2008

Iraqi journalist hurls shoes at Bush during news conference

Adam Ashton

Baghdad - An Iraqi television journalist hurled two shoes at President Bush 
on Sunday during a joint news conference Bush was holding with Iraqi Prime 
Minister Nouri al Maliki to mark the signing of a U.S.-Iraq security 
agreement.

Bush had just finished his prepared remarks in which he said the security 
agreement was made possible by the U.S. surge of troops to Iraq last year, 
when the journalist, Muthathar al Zaidi, pulled his shoes off and hurled 
them at the president. "This is a goodbye kiss, you dog," Zaidi shouted.

Bush dodged the shoes and was not struck. Bodyguards quickly wrestled Zaidi 
to the floor and hauled him, kicking and screaming, from the room. Two other 
Iraqi journalists were briefly detained after one of them called Zaidi's 
actions "courageous."

Bush shrugged off the incident. "I didn't feel the least bit threatened by 
it," he said.

Zaidi works for an Iraqi satellite television station based in Cairo. 
Friends said he covered the U.S. bombing of Baghdad's Sadr City area earlier 
this year and had been "emotionally influenced" by the destruction he'd 
seen. They also said he'd been kidnapped in 2007 and held for three days by 
Shiite Muslim gunmen.

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