Fellow Iraqi turns tables on Bush shoe-thrower
Reuters - 2 hours 45 minutes agoAn Iraqi reporter imprisoned for throwing his shoes at President George W. Bush found himself on the receiving end of a similar footwear attack in Paris Tuesday.
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Video: Iraqi Shoe Thrower Now a Target
CBS News - Wed Dec 2, 12:57 pm ETWhile speaking at a press conference in Paris on Tuesday, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, was nearly hit in the face by a thrown shoe. al-Zeidi is infamous for throwing his shoes at President Bush in Iraq 2008.
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Iraqi Filmmakers Defy Militants With Screenings at Bomb Sites
International Herald Tribune - Tue Dec 1, 11:10 pm ETIraqi feature films are being screened at the sites of four of the most devastating bombings in Baghdad, in an attempt to help combat a continuing climate of fear.
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Total Seeks Iraqi Oil Fields in Return to Roots (Update1)
Bloomberg - Wed Dec 2, 12:35 pm ETDec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Total SA , which has so far failed to win contracts to develop Iraqi oil reserves, is interested in at least three fields as it seeks to return to a country the French producer first helped explore back in 1927.
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Iraqi kidnappers abandon govt talks
AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 10:26 am ETThe radical Shiite group that kidnapped five Britons in Baghdad more than two years ago said on Tuesday it had broken off talks with Iraq's government over integration into the political process.
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Iraqi shoe tosser gets one slung at him
USA Today - Wed Dec 2, 1:24 am ETThe Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year was attacked by a shoe-thrower in Paris.
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Iraqi journalist turns tables on shoe thrower
AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 1:10 pm ETA protester who presented himself as an Iraqi journalist in exile hurled a shoe Tuesday at the colleague who one year ago found fame hurling his own footwear at then US president George W. Bush.
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Marine panel convenes to consider demotion for officer over 2005 Iraqi killings
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Wed Dec 2, 12:55 pm ETCAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - A Marine Corps colonel overseeing a demotion hearing for an officer accused of failing to investigate the deaths of 24 Iraqi men, women and children considered Wednesday whether photos of the dead people should be allowed as evidence.
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Iraqi peace activist speaks at Nicolet
The Rhinelander Daily News - Wed Dec 2, 2:58 pm ETAn Iraqi native who now lives in Minneapolis, Minn., spoke Tuesday at Nicolet College’s Rhinelander-area campus promoting peace while saying his piece about the situation in his home country.
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Iraqi shoe-thrower finds out what it was like
AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 2:03 pm ETThe Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year had a taste of his own medicine Tuesday when he nearly got beaned by a shoe thrower at a news conference in Paris.
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Mysterious 'Saddam Channel' drops off Iraqi TV
AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 30, 2:04 pm ETA mysterious TV channel praising Saddam Hussein dropped off satellite airwaves on Monday, just three days after it began broadcasting.
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Iraqi shoe-thrower meets his match
UPI - Tue Dec 1, 7:59 pm ETPARIS, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- An Iraqi journalist in Paris threw a shoe at the journalist who did the same to U.S. President George W. Bush one year earlier in Baghdad.
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Saddam Hussein is alive and kicking - on TV! Mysterious 'Saddam Channel' hits Iraqi television
New York Daily News - Sun Nov 29, 11:26 pm ETTurning on their TVs during the long holiday weekend, Iraqis were greeted by a familiar if unexpected face from their brutal past: Saddam Hussein .
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Iraqi shoe-thrower has shoe thrown at him
KENS 5 San Antonio - Wed Dec 2, 9:05 am ETThe Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year had a taste of his own medicine Tuesday when he nearly got beaned by a shoe thrower at a news conference in Paris. PARIS – The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush in Baghdad last year had a taste of his own medicine Tuesday when he nearly got beaned by a shoe thrower at a news ...
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Marine panel scheduled to consider demotion for officer over 2005 Iraqi civilian killings
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Wed Dec 2, 3:55 am ETCAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - A military panel is convening at Camp Pendleton to decide whether a Marine officer should be demoted for failing to investigate the deaths of Iraqi civilians.
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Ex-soldier tells his story of Iraqi deaths - Army News, news from Iraq, - Army Times
Army Times - Tue Dec 1, 9:10 am ETSWEETWATER, Tenn. — Ray Girouard couldn't wait to leave home.
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Iraqi journalist turns tables on shoe thrower
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