Shoe-hurling Iraqi journalist gains notoriety

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Uploaded by on Dec 16, 2008

he Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush is now the focus of political, legal and very loud public debate.

Iraqi officials say 29-year-old Muntadhar al-Zaidi, a reporter for a Cairo-based television station, is now in judicial custody.

On the streets of Baghdad, protestors called for the reporters release and some journalists urged the government to set al-Zaidi free.
Raghida Dergham, the senior diplomatic correspondent and columnist for Al Hayat, joins Martin Savidge from the United Nations to discuss Iraqi and Middle Eastern reactions to the shoe incident, reasons for persisting anger in Iraq and the fate of Muntadhar al-Zaidi.

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  • @jove04 she doesnt make up her own lines!!!

  • He didn't throw a joke with that shoe, he threw a very strong statement of opposition to what is happening to his people. He was nice, I wouldn't have thrown just shoes if that was happening in my country.

  • It was not funny. It was an insult of Bush you bitch Zionist.

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