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| Iraqi who threw shoes is released |
| By mercurynews.com |
| Published: 09/15/2009 |
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Reporting from Baghdad - The case started with a news conference and ended with one too, but this time no footwear flew. Instead, Muntather Zaidi, an Iraqi television correspondent who gained notoriety when he hurled his loafers at former President George W. Bush, took the occasion of being released from jail today to accuse Iraqi security forces of torturing him in custody. Zaidi, who had been tackled by Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's bodyguards after cursing Bush and lobbing his loafer at him last December at a Baghdad news conference, told a triumphant homecoming at his old television station, Al Baghdadiya satellite channel, that he had been beaten, whipped and shocked in the first days of his incarceration. "Here I am free and the country is still a prisoner," a sedate Zaidi, with an Iraqi flag draped around his soldiers, told reporters. Zaidi, who was missing a front tooth, reiterated the explosive allegations aired by his family during his jail time that he had been beaten immediately after his assault on Bush. "The Iraqi prime minister was showed in the media saying he did not sleep until he checked on me, and then only after I found a comfortable bed and a cover, [but] at these moments when he was speaking I was getting tortured in the most terrible ways possible, by electric shock, beatings by cables, being beating by steel bars," Zaidi said, adding the abuse began right outside the building where he confronted the U.S. president. " I demand an apology from Mr. Maliki for hiding the truth from the people." Read More. |
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