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Shoe-Thrower to Sue
The shoe-thrower Muntazar al-Zaidi has still not been heard from since he was taken into custody last week, but according to his brother Uday, Zaidi plans to sue the Iraqi government for his public beating. Uday alleges that his brother suffered cigarette burns and lost a tooth in the beating, and that he was tortured into writing a letter of apology. "The thing that makes you cry and laugh at the same time,” Uday said, “is that when the prime minister said that that my brother was not tortured and will not be tortured, he was under severe torture by security authorities." Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, meanwhile, said Zaidi admitted he was convinced to throw his shoes at President Bush by a terrorist “known to us for slitting throats." Zaidi faces up to two years in prison for “insulting a foreign leader.”
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5 years, 100,000 lives, 2,000,000 refugees and $700 billion later our administration still hasn't figured out how Iraq works. Let alone the rest of the region. Such arrogance is very dangerous.
Let us all understand, that if a citizen of another country would have thrown ANYTHING, at a leader in Iraq, they would have been shot, or beheaded...what about human rights?
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