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<DIV>You support assaulting the President? Or just presidents you don't agree with?</DIV>
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<DIV>I think it would funny if Bush sneaked into his cell while he slept and hit him in the face with a shoe. Then give the guy a pardon, and when he walked out of the prison, Bush threw his other shoe at him. That would be the icing on his birthday cake. No doubt this guy will get like 50000 new shoes for his birthday. </DIV>
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<DIV>Best Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan<BR><BR>--- On <B>Sat, 1/17/09, Tom Hansen <I><thansen@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><BR>Subject: [Vision2020] Shoe-Thrower Gets Visit, Birthday Party<BR>To: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009, 6:44 AM<BR><BR><PRE>Courtesy of today's (January 17, 2009) Spokesman Review.
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Shoe-thrower gets visit, birthday party
The Iraqi journalist jailed since throwing his shoes at President George
W. Bush got a visit from his brother Friday and a birthday party from his
guards as he turned 30.
Muntadhar <SPAN><SPAN>al</SPAN></SPAN>-Zeidi, who has gained cult status for his bizarre protest, is
in good shape but has been denied access to his lawyer, relatives said
after his brother Maitham visited him for two hours in his detention cell
in Baghdad¢s heavily fortified Green Zone.
Al-Zeidi has been in custody since the Dec. 14 outburst at Bush¢s joint
news conference with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Thousands
demonstrated for al-Zeidi¢s release and hailed his gesture.
But concern was raised about his welfare after allegations that he had
been severely beaten and tortured in detention.
Maitham al-Zeidi was not available to comment on the visit, but another
brother, Dhargham, told the Associated Press that he was told the wounds
had healed.
Al-Zeidi had been due to face a trial in December on a charge of
assaulting a foreign leader. But an appellate court is considering a
motion to reduce the charges to simply insulting Bush
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Insulting Bush?
If Al-Zeidi's charges are reduced to "insulting Bush", I
recommend that
Moscow send him a letter of appreciation and a new pair of shoes. In the
past eight years, Al-Zeidi is the only person to stand up to Bush.
Seeya round town, Moscow.
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
"For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist
Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go
to work."
- Roy Zimmerman
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