[R-G] Iraqi journalist hurls shoes at Bush during Baghdad news conference

[Anthony Fenton]

Here is the video of the shoe-toss

http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=bush+shoes 
+&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#q=bush%20shoes%20iraq&hl=en&emb=0

On 14-Dec-08, at 11:35 AM, Sid Shniad wrote:

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>   McClatchy Newspapers                              December 14, 2008
>
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>   Iraqi journalist hurls shoes at Bush during news conference
>
>
>   Adam Ashton
>
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>   Baghdad â 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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