Iraq: On Ground Updates
Iraqi Shoe-Throwing, at President Bush, Journalist Gets Three Year Jail Sentence
Thursday, March 12, 2009
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A Baghdad Court today sentenced Iraqi Shoe-Throwing Journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes back in December of 2008 at former President Bush, to three years in prison… Zaidi had faced up to 15 years in prison on charges of assaulting a foreign leader.
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* FoxNews.com breaks it down for us HERE
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Al Jazeera’s Omar al-Saleh gives us their spin on the shoe-thrower
Iraqi Shoe-Throwing, at President Bush, Journalist Gets Three Year Jail Sentence
Thursday, March 12, 2009
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A Baghdad Court today sentenced Iraqi Shoe-Throwing Journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes back in December of 2008 at former President Bush, to three years in prison… Zaidi had faced up to 15 years in prison on charges of assaulting a foreign leader.
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* FoxNews.com breaks it down for us HERE
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Al Jazeera’s Omar al-Saleh gives us their spin on the shoe-thrower
About this short News Video: The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George Bush, the former US president, has been sentenced to three years in jail… His defense lawyer says Muntadher al-Zaidi was making a legitimate protest against the occupation and should never have been treated as a criminal… Al-Zaidi's action drew praise and condemnation, both inside and outside Iraq.
Above Info/News Video posted on YouTube by AlJazeeraEnglish
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