Bush's Iraqi thugs threaten to spark wave of violent protest with arrest and torture of shoe thrower

[bigtree]

Bush can make this stop with a wave of his hand . . . where's that 'freedom' he claimed made the shoe throwing possible?


Protesting Iraqis Demand Release Of Shoe Throwing Journalist

December 15, 2008 7:24 p.m. EST

Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) - Shiite protesters marched in the streets of Najaf on Monday demanding the release of an Egyptian TV journalist who threw shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush during a visit to Baghdad.

The demonstrators hailed Muntadar al-Zaidi as a freedom fighter and threw shoes at patrolling U.S. troops to imitate the journalist's action on Sunday that made headlines around the world.

In Sadr City, followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr burned American flags and chanted: "Bush, Bush listen well: We pushed you out with two shoes," according to the Washington Post. The Cairo, Egypt-based TV station Al-Baghdadia, where Zaidi works, aired pleas to release its reporter.

Zaidi has become an instant sensation and a hero in the Arab world after throwing his shoes at Bush in protest against U.S. policies in Iraq while the American leader was delivering a speech together with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Bush ducked and was not hit by the shoes.

Zaidi is facing seven years imprisonment for his action, regarded as a grave insult to the Iraqi prime minister.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7013419045


They "kicked him and beat him until he was crying like a woman,” said Mohammed Taher, a reporter for Afaq, a television station owned by the Dawa Party.
http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/2008/12/save_muntader_alzaidi.html


In the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, people calling for an immediate American withdrawal removed their footwear and placed the shoes and sandals at the end of long poles, waving them high in the air. And in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, people threw their shoes at a passing American convoy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/world/middleeast/16shoe.html?_r=1&ref=middleeast&pagewanted=print

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Who has authorized torture of the shoe thrower?

[tekisui]

2. Well, chimpy hasn't stopped it.

[dynasaw]

3. Hey Chimp Where's Your So Called "Christian" Spirit?

Where's the forgiveness, turn the other cheek etc., etc.,that you're supposed to exhibit in emulation of Jesus?

[spanone]

4. bu$h* = soulless thug

[MasonJar]

5. Hero to the Arab world? He is my hero too, and I live in the good old US of A.