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12/31/2008

Iran gives shoe thrower a scholarship.

From Xinhua:

Iran's Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mohammad Hosseini announced that his country was ready to grant a scholarship to the Iraqi shoe-throwing journalist Muntadhar Al-Zaidi, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday.

"Al-Zaidi can continue his studies in any of the Iranian universities that he chooses," the report quoted Hosseini as saying. He expressed hope that he (Al-Zaidi) would "be acquitted after the court hearing due to be held (in Iraq) this week." Al-Zaidi, a reporter of Cairo-based Baghdadia Iraqi television, threw his shoes at the U.S. President George W. Bush at a news conference with the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad on Dec. 14.

Posted at 07:54 PM in Iran, Iraq |

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Doesn't this just figure?

Anything to support one who insulted the United States.

Posted by: Always On Watch | 01/01/2009 at 11:56 AM

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