I’mma Let Shoe Finish…
via Cynical-C
In a room packed with reporters and family members, Mr. Zaidi described the anger and helplessness he experienced after the American invasion in 2003, the suffering of widows and orphans he witnessed and why he felt compelled to wage a protest.
“I saw the chance and I seized it,” he said. “If those who blamed me knew how many destroyed houses I walked over with those shoes that I threw, and how many times those shoes mixed with the blood of the innocent, and how many times those shoes went into homes where the honor of those who lived there was disgraced, then it was probably the proper response.”
- Freed, Shoe-Hurling Iraqi Alleges Torture in Prison
by Marc Santora
2009-09-15
There’s irreverent speech but there’s also ultimate censure…
US troops, however, claim that they acted in self-defense since they had assumed that their convoy was being targeted with a ‘suspected grenade’, AFP reported.
“Positive identification of the attacker was made, and US forces fired in self-defense wounding the attacker,” said the US Army in a statement. Ahmed Latif, 32, died of gunshot wounds in the hospital.
The violent incident came only one day after Muntazer al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former US President George W. Bush last December, was released from a Baghdad prison after serving a nine-month term.
- US soldiers shoot and kill Iraqi shoe thrower
2009-09-16
Choose your targets wisely.
