Raw Story: Bush shoe-thrower 'too injured' to appear in court, brother says

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Bush shoe-thrower 'too injured' to appear in court, brother says
RAW STORY
Published: Wednesday December 17, 2008

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi journalist who became an instant media star for hurling his shoes at US President George W. Bush appeared on Wednesday before a judge investigating the incident.

Muntazer al-Zaidi, 29, a television reporter who relatives and colleagues said acted because he "detested" Bush and America, was brought before the judge in the high-security Green Zone in the heart of Baghdad, his brother, Dhargham, said.

Al-Zaidi appeared before the judge in his jail cell "because he is too injured to appear in a courtroom," Australia's Herald Sun quotes the brother as saying.

"The al-Zaidi family went to Baghdad's Central Criminal Court expecting to attend a hearing," reports the paper. The brother said "the family was told that the investigative judge went to see al-Zaidi in jail, and to return in eight days," which Dhargham took to mean that his brother "was severely beaten and they fear that his appearance could trigger anger at the court."

But Iraqi officials and another brother deny that the journalist suffered severe injuries after being wrestled to the floor after the incident, the Herald Sun says.

Under Iraqi law, Zaidi risks up to seven years in jail for "offending the head of a foreign state."




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to throw shoes or a fit. BTW, he's really hot.

Extremists would take their anger out on either Iraqi civilians or US troops. If the cops beat him up real badly, he'll be just another recruiting poster for the same types of evil bastards who abused him back when he was kidnapped.

If I met this man today, I would thank him; I would shake his hand and buy him a beer.