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Bush’s shoe-throwing critic: For many, an instant hero

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As we noted on Tuesday, Muntadar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist, threw his shoes at George W. Bush this past Sunday, when the lame-duck, self-styled “war president” took part in a press conference in Baghdad alongside Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Since then, al-Zaidi, a reporter for a Cairo-based TV channel, has quickly come to be regarded as something of a heroic figure in many parts of the Arab/Muslim world.

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admin @ December 19, 2008

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