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| Iraq |
| Iraqi shoe-thrower badly beaten |
| 2008-12-21 |
| wow! Consequences for actions? Who'da thunk it? Al-Grauniad hand-wringing at link.This part was interesting: One colleague alleged he had been a Baathist under Saddam Hussein's rule and after the US-led invasion turned into a defender of religious cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's ideals. "I know people are seeing him as a hero, but he would do anything to become famous," said the colleague. "He said many times that he would like to become president of Iraq." Others, however, vehemently disagree with these claims. Wanna-be islamo-celebrity? |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #3 I'm not being facetious. Hummm.... checks out okay on the Metres. Winter Solstice 2008, MARK! |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-12-21 21:50 |
| #2 Muntazer al-Zaidi has not been seen in public since he hurled his shoes at President George Bush. In Baghdad, Afif Sarhan talks to witnesses who claim that a series of savage attacks left him with a broken rib and serious damage to his eye In a country where they regularly blow people to pieces, or torture and bury them in orchards, a broken rib and even an eye damage hardly classify as a "savage attack". I'm not being facetious. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-12-21 09:31 |
| #1 Wonder if they bastinadoed him too? That might teach him to keep his shoes on. The fact this punk took an ass-whipping bothers me not at all. He's damned lucky it wasn't a .40 S&W double-tap to center mass as it should have been. I'd bet a number of people in the Secret Service currently on the Presidential security detail are going to be back chasing counterfeiters very, very quickly. |
| Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-12-21 08:47 |