What kind of people would assault a fellow countryman for insulting a foreign dictator?

[Smith_3]

That I wonder. The people who charged the shoethrower and beat him after the incident. They must be the lowest worthless scum on the planet.

[Rhiannon12866]

1. Weren't those security guards?

From what I understood, Iraqis in Sadr City, where this journalist came from, have taken to the streets in support of him, consider him a hero, and are protesting his arrest...

[izquierdista]

2. Quislings

At least that's what the Norwegians call them.

[Richard Steele]

3. Ya beat me to it. nm

[David__77]

4. Traitors to be sure.

I cannot fathom how they can betray their countrymen.

[NNN0LHI]

5. Some people want to bring these collaborators here when we leave Iraq

Won't that be great?

Don

[asteroid2003QQ47]

6. And that 'kind of people' differ from those whose CIC is said dictator...

how, exactly?
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[Hekate]

7. Security guards. In legal terms, the shoe thrower attempted to assault a foreign leader...

... same as if he had heaved a brick at Bush. The beating is not-legal, but the take-down and the arrest were absolutely justified.

Hekate