theaustralian.news.com.au - 1/19/2009
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AN Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at US President George W Bush in Baghdad last month is to seek political asylum in Switzerland, a Geneva lawyer told the daily La Tribune de Geneve today. Muntazer al-Zaidi gained instant international fame when he threw his shoes at Bush during the US ...
worldmeets.us - 1/18/2009
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worldmeets.us —
[The Toronto Star, Canada] Nachrichten, Switzerland The George
Bush Years: 'Not According to Plan'"Bush sees no fault
in his actions - things just 'haven't gone according to plan' ... If one wished to credit Bush with anything, it might be this: He ...
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The George Bush Years: 'Not According to Plan' - ...
talkleft.com - 1/21/2009
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talkleft.com —
The Government of Switzerland made a generous offer
today -- it is willing to consider taking Guantanamo
detainees who cannot return to their home countries: "For Switzerland, the detention of people in Guantanamo is in conflict with international ...
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Switzerland Offers to Consider Taking Gitmo Detainees
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Iraqi shoe-thrower seeks asylum in Switzerland
Michelle Malkin —
... at President Bush, wants refuge in Switzerland : AN Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at US President George W Bush in Baghdad last month is to seek political asylum in Switzerland, a Geneva lawyer told the daily La Tribune de Geneve today. Muntazer al-Zaidi gained instant international fame when he threw his shoes at Bush during the US president’s farewell visit to Iraq on December 14, an action considered a grave insult in the Arab world.“At the beginning of the month his family contacted me via the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) and I shall write this ...
Irony alert: Heroic shoe-thrower applies for asylum to Switzerland
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... Hey, I thought that the media had anointed Muntazer al-Zaidi the representative of the Iraqis in terms of their feelings towards George Bush and the American liberation of Iraq from Saddam Hussein. After Zaidi tossed his shoes at the outgoing American president, the mainstream media made him into a hero and used the shoe-tossing assault as an ongoing motif in cartooning and in Bush retrospectives. In Iraq, though, Zaidi has discovered that it constitutes assault on a foreign dignitary — and they’re enthusiastic about prosecuting him for it (via ...
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