Official: I support the Iraqi Shoe Thrower thread

[Blake]

I guarantee if that was a choncla thrown by someone's abuelita, Bush would have gone down

[Yonivore]

Mr. Muntader al-Zaidi is very lucky that it was Mr. Bush and Mr. Maliki and not Saddam Hussein. Because, had it been Mr. Saddam Hussein he'd be (inaudible). Number 2, in our country, I know that people have told you that showing shoes at someone is an insult. But, it is a bigger insult to the host; in our culture anyone who insults a guest is insulting the host. So in our culture we believe that what Mr al-Zeidi did was reprehensible.

[clambake]

now yoni cares about their culture.

[Spurtacus]

i would have caught that and pegged that guy

[Wild Cobra]

I wonder just how pathetic you people are who think it's funny that president Bush was such a target?

Definitely losers! I just don't know how low of a loser!

[Bob Lanier]

[Nbadan]

Meet the new King, same as the old king....

Dargham al-Zaidi said he was told a judge had been to see his younger brother, Muntazer, at the jail where he has been held since throwing his shoes at the US president during a press conference in Baghdad on Sunday. The TV reporter – whose actions have made him a star in the Arab world – called Bush a "dog" and said he was angry at the US occupation of his country.

Dargham told the Associated Press he believed the private visit might have been arranged as his brother had been beaten up "and they fear that his appearance could trigger anger at the court".

According to Dargham, the 29-year-old reporter suffered a broken arm and ribs, as well as injuries to an eye and a leg after being badly beaten by security officials, and was treated at the Ibn Sina hospital, in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. Dargham said he did not know whether the injuries happened when Muntazer was being overpowered at the press conference or later.

Guardian