The Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush and called him a "dog"
Reporter who threw shoe at President Bush 'to sue over beating' The brother of the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George Bush says the reporter plans a lawsuit against Iraqi security services for beating him.
Shoe-throwing Iraqi asks for pardon. The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush is begging for a pardon, the prime minister's spokesman said yesterday. Muntadhar al-Zeidi, a reporter for an Iraqi-owned TV station based in Cairo, Egypt, could face two years' in prison. He remained in custody last night. "It is too late to reverse the big and ugly act that I perpetrated," al-Zeidi wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, according to the prime minister's spokesman, Yassin Majid. White House press secretary Dana Perino said yesterday that she had seen reports that al-Zeidi had apologized but she did not know whether Bush was aware of them.
Iraqi PM not to sue Bush shoe thrower, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Sunday that he will not file a lawsuit against the reporter who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush during a news conference in Baghdad last week.
"I will yield my personal right (to file lawsuit) over the Zaidi case, but I will not relinquish the right of the state of Iraq and its guest in suing Zaidi," Maliki told a news conference in Baghdad.
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