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Al-Zaidi charged for throwing shoes in presence of Maliki, not for aiming at Bush.
Think Progress —
CNN Baghdad correspondent Michael Ware reports that Muntader al-Zaidi — the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush yesterday during a press conference — “is being investigated for possible charges not connected to assaulting President Bush, but for doing it in front of the Iraqi Prime Minister and hurling the shoes in the Prime Minister’s general direction rather than at President Bush’s head.” After CNN host T.J. Holmes clarified that “just because the Iraqi Prime Minister was in the vicinity that might really be what gets him in trouble,” Ware responded, “Yeah brother, this is Iraq.” Watch it: ...
Shoegate Thrower Charged
The Latest on Air America —
Muntader Al-Zaidi, the journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush during a news conference is being charged for not throwing shoes at Bush but for throwing shoes in the presence of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (which is Iraq is a no-no). CNN's Baghad reporter Michael Ware reports that Al-Zaidi "is being investigated for possible charges not connected to assaulting President Bush, but for doing it in front of the Iraqi Prime Minister and hurling the shoes in the Prime Minister’s general direction rather than at President Bush’s head."
Video courtesy of ThinkProgress:
