Iraqi shoe-hurler tortured?
According to his brother, he’s got a broken arm and could be heard screaming in the room adjacent to the Bush press conference (as the press confrence continued). I’m sure this isn’t the last we’ve heard from this story:
An Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush in a fit of outrage had an arm broken in chaotic scenes when he was leapt on by Iraqi security officers, his brother said on Tuesday.
TV reporter Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who called Bush a “dog” at a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday, was in a hospital in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, his brother Maitham al-Zeidi said.
“All that we know is we were contacted yesterday by a person — we know him — and he told us that Muntadhar was taken on Sunday to Ibn-Sina hospital,” Maitham al-Zeidi said. “He was wounded in the head because he was hit by a rifle butt, and one of his arms was broken.”
FireDogLake has more on this developing story. Gazans are celebrating.
