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

LondonCypriot


Joined: 15/12/2008
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Message Posted:
19/12/2008 00:44

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/16/zaidi-15-years/

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 is 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

Groucho



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Message Posted:
19/12/2008 00:47

No wonder he's apologised for embarrassing the Prime Minister of Iraq...

Groucho



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Message Posted:
19/12/2008 00:49

The girls who throw knickers at Tom Jones must be cacking it! ;¬)

newlad



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Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
19/12/2008 00:52

Unfortunateley he missed,

Paul.

phylray



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Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
19/12/2008 03:06

Whatever the wrongs of Bush, he was a guest of a democratically

elected Prime Minister & that would cause so much embarassment

to his hosts. Now the offendent is cringing & asking for mercy.

America is a very generous country and an outgoing president will

be accorded respect. It is very unArabic to do this kind of thing.

cmriver1


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 34

Message Posted:
19/12/2008 03:49

Bush was on TV the next day and didn't seem to have a problem it. But he did urge them not to overreact, because he was not bothered by the incident.

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
19/12/2008 08:58

Now you all have the chance to throw your shoes at Georgy.

http://sockandawe.com/

cooper


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Posts: 3386

Message Posted:
19/12/2008 09:09

He's really put his foot in it this time !!

keithcaley



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Posts: 2521

Message Posted:
19/12/2008 18:53

Groucho,

As long as they didn't C... their Knickers first.....

moomoo


Joined: 15/12/2008
Posts: 18

Message Posted:
20/12/2008 00:36

GROUCHO..



HAHAHAHA @ "The girls who throw knickers at Tom Jones must be cacking it!"



Toooo funny my brother!!

TRNCVaughan


Joined: 27/04/2008
Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
20/12/2008 14:16

The reason he threw the shoes was because in his society it is a very serious insult. If it wasn't, he wouldn't have done it. If he had wanted to physically hurt GW he could have hurled a camera/dictaphone at him.

Having committed such a serious breach, he must now surely have to pay the price. He obviously thought he could act like an arab in Iraq but be treated like a westerner in the USA.

I have no sympathy for him - which doesn't mean I approve of GW in any way.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
20/12/2008 14:19

15 Years? If that had happened in the UK he would have got a telling off by the local Chief Constable or at worst an ASBO!

PtePike



Joined: 20/05/2008
Posts: 2334

Message Posted:
20/12/2008 14:45

cmriver: "Bush was on TV the next day and didn't seem to have a problem it. But he did urge them not to overreact, because he was not bothered by the incident."



For a man who's been beaten up by a pretzel Bush handled the incident very well.

Middle Easter


Joined: 13/06/2007
Posts: 146

Message Posted:
20/12/2008 19:23

I really do not know what the concern is. If the shoe had hit George W, it couldn't have mentally impaired him as his backside was under the table!



This man truly has been the moron of the century...god help the world with people like this at the helm!

phylray



Joined: 21/09/2007
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
20/12/2008 22:48

Have no sympathy for Bush but it was embarrassing for the

Iraqis & now this guy doesn't have the guts to take his

punishment for it, as he is wingeing & asking for forgiveness

from the Iraqi president.

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
21/12/2008 10:55

i think bush should have picked up the shoes and thrown them back at the guy!

Newboy


Joined: 21/02/2008
Posts: 80

Message Posted:
21/12/2008 12:45

If you can't do the time don't do the crime.

Groucho



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Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
21/12/2008 12:53

Rose,



I think he would have missed, hit somebody else and caused even more of a stink...



As it is I think he did the right thing.. duck.



I was quite surpised that the signal from his optic nerves reached his brain and even more surprised that his brain was able to process the information and send a transmission to the rest of his body to move... quite outstanding for someone who, up to now, had given the impression that the lights were on but nobody was home... ;¬)

denizkisi


Joined: 18/09/2008
Posts: 196

Message Posted:
21/12/2008 13:05

He was lucky that it was only shoes and not a bomb. Bush should be on trial for war crimes, he is a disgrace.

petlovers


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Posts: 52

Message Posted:
21/12/2008 21:59

did he get his shoes back?? as he was the SOUL person to do this act HEEL properly be FOOTING a big fine.

david123


Joined: 07/07/2008
Posts: 393

Message Posted:
22/12/2008 13:56

should of thrown a grenade at him, would of a least got him somewhere.