Bush-New TX Home For 89,881–98,133 - Iraqi CIVILIAN Deaths-al-Zeidi Gets Torture-15 YRS For A Shoe

[kpete]

sorry, 2 shoeskp

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/recent/

Documented civilian deaths from violence

89,881 – 98,133

Latest incidents......................................Latest identified
Dec 03: One by roadside bomb near Al Saada bakery.....Al Ameen, Baghdad Cousins of Hashim al-Karawi Adult; Male Details

Recent events
Monday 15 December: 20 dead
Baghdad: suicide bomber kills Sahwa leader; car bomb kills 9 policemen.

Ninewa
Sinjar: gunmen kill 7 Yazidi family members.
Mosul: bomb kills 2 men in car; gunmen kill woman in her home.

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

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Al-Zaidi faces up to 15 years in prison for hurling shoes at Bush.»

Muntader al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush, appeared before a judge today in Baghdad and admitted to “the action he carried out.” Reuters reports that “the court decided to keep Zaidi in custody” and that after an investigation in completed, “the court may send him for trial under a clause in the Iraqi penal code that makes it an offense to attempt to murder Iraqi or foreign presidents.” Abdul Satar Birqadr, a spokesman for Iraq’s High Judicial Council said that al-Zaidi faces up to 15 years in prison.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/16/mideast/iraq.php
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/16/zaidi-15-years/

[polichick]

1. Exactly - it's deeply disturbing.

[Solly Mack]

2. Yep..the war criminal goes free

[stillcool]

3. American Style Justice..aka Freedom

[EOTE]

4. I believe the real number is quite a bit higher. NT