SCSTILLER
12-02-2009, 06:56 AM
PARIS — The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year had a taste of his own medicine Tuesday when he nearly got beaned by a shoe thrower at a news conference in Paris.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi ducked and the shoe hit the wall behind him.
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"He stole my technique," al-Zeidi later quipped.
The identity of the new shoe-thrower — and his motivation — weren't immediately clear, but he appeared to be an Iraqi. It was not known if the intruder was a journalist or just pretended to be one to attend the news conference at a center for foreign reporters.
Whatever his motive, the confrontation didn't stop there.
Al-Zeidi's brother, Maithan, chased the attacker in the audience and — what else? — pelted him with a shoe as he left the room.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi, a TV reporter, became a hero to many opponents of the Iraq war when he hurled his shoes at Bush during a news conference in Baghdad in December 2008 while shouting: "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq." Al-Zeidi was quickly wrestled to the ground by security guards, then imprisoned for nine months before being released in September.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,578428,00.html
I am curious to see who this guy is, what his story is. Is he a displaced Iraqi from the Saddam years? If so he knows how violent that era was for the Iraqi's.
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Don't worry WARDen, I know that Foxnews isn't a real news network, so these are for you,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1232587/Iraqi-shoe-thrower-suffers-copycat-attack-shoe-thrown-news-conference.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091201/ap_on_re_eu/eu_france_iraq_shoe_thrower
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2009-12-01-show-thrower-iraq_N.htm
Muntadhar al-Zeidi ducked and the shoe hit the wall behind him.
Click here for photos.
"He stole my technique," al-Zeidi later quipped.
The identity of the new shoe-thrower — and his motivation — weren't immediately clear, but he appeared to be an Iraqi. It was not known if the intruder was a journalist or just pretended to be one to attend the news conference at a center for foreign reporters.
Whatever his motive, the confrontation didn't stop there.
Al-Zeidi's brother, Maithan, chased the attacker in the audience and — what else? — pelted him with a shoe as he left the room.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi, a TV reporter, became a hero to many opponents of the Iraq war when he hurled his shoes at Bush during a news conference in Baghdad in December 2008 while shouting: "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq." Al-Zeidi was quickly wrestled to the ground by security guards, then imprisoned for nine months before being released in September.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,578428,00.html
I am curious to see who this guy is, what his story is. Is he a displaced Iraqi from the Saddam years? If so he knows how violent that era was for the Iraqi's.
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Don't worry WARDen, I know that Foxnews isn't a real news network, so these are for you,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1232587/Iraqi-shoe-thrower-suffers-copycat-attack-shoe-thrown-news-conference.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091201/ap_on_re_eu/eu_france_iraq_shoe_thrower
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2009-12-01-show-thrower-iraq_N.htm