NBC:Iraqi reporters brother says sources told him al-Zeidi in hospital for head wound and broken arm

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28252437/

Brother: Iraqi shoe-hurler injured, hospitalized
Journalist is said to have suffered broken arm; hundreds protest his arrest


BAGHDAD - An Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush in a fit of outrage had an arm broken in chaotic scenes when he was leapt on by Iraqi security officers, his brother said on Tuesday.

TV reporter Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who called Bush a "dog" at a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday, was in a hospital in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, his brother Maitham al-Zeidi said.

"All that we know is we were contacted yesterday by a person — we know him — and he told us that Muntadhar was taken on Sunday to Ibn-Sina hospital," Maitham al-Zeidi said. "He was wounded in the head because he was hit by a rifle butt, and one of his arms was broken."

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Hundreds took to the streets Tuesday for a second day to demand the release of al-Zeidi, who gained folk hero status when he hurled both his shoes at Bush during a news conference Sunday in Baghdad.

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1. Same as it ever was. Nice going especially since many see al-Zeidi as a hero

He was already tortured, now he's been abused.

I give to you a fresh wave of outrage surge from the Iraqi people. What a mess.