Monday, December 15, 2008

"Yeah Brother, This Is Iraq"

CNN Baghdad correspondent Michael Ware reports that Muntader al-Zaidi — the 28 year-old Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush yesterday during a press conference — “is being investigated for possible charges not connected to assaulting President Bush, but for doing it in front of the Iraqi Prime Minister and hurling the shoes in the Prime Minister’s general direction rather than at President Bush’s head.

The errant throw at Bush's head has prompted the NY Mets to sign al-Zaidi to a MLB contract, sending the rightie to AAA New Orleans Zephyrs. I keed.



Source: ThinkProgress

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