What in the world have we done and are doing to these beautiful people?
"Iraqi leader says shoe-thrower implicated militant; Suspect's family rejects link" by Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press | December 23, 2008
Family members gathered yesterday at the home n Baghdad of Muntader al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at President Bush. (Khalid Mohammed/ Associated Press)
BAGHDAD - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki moved yesterday to undermine the popularity of the Iraqi who threw his shoes at President Bush, saying the journalist confessed that the attack was coordinated by a militant known for slitting his victims' throats.... The alleged instigator was not named and neither Maliki nor any of his officials would elaborate....
Translation: The smear is crap and Maliki is a LIAR!
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Earlier, another brother said that he met the journalist in prison.
"He told me that he has no regret for what he did and that he would do it again," Uday al-Zaidi said. He said he visited his brother Sunday and found him missing a tooth and with cigarette burns on his ears. He also said his brother told him that jailers doused him with cold water while he was naked.
Yeah, we ALL KNOW he is being TORTURED! That's why the judge had to ge SEE HIM in the jail cell!!! Can't put a guy you've beaten in front of the public!
"When I saw him yesterday, there were bruises on his face and body. He told me that they used an iron bar to hit him when they took him out of the press conference room. He told me that he began screaming and thought all those at the press conference would have heard his voice," Uday al-Zaidi said.
So much for support from your collegues, 'eh?
The investigating judge, Dhia al-Kinani, has said that the journalist was beaten in the face when he was wrestled to the ground after throwing the shoes at Bush during a Dec. 14 press conference in the Green Zone. The judge said Zaidi's face was bruised, but he did not provide a further description.
There has been no independent corroboration that Zaidi was abused in custody....
Of course not. Why would the lying, agenda-pushing press want to do that. I mean, look, they worked real hard to link the guy to terrorists (the lead), so the last thing they would want you to know is WE (and our Iraqi servants) are the TERRORISTS!!!!
The hurling of the shoes turned the little-known Iraqi journalist into an international celebrity and led to huge street demonstrations in support of him.
Yeah, save that for the last paragraph, too!!!
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Gee, they got a picture of the family but didn't talk to them? WTF?
