December 18, 2008

Yeah riiiggghhhtttt - shoe thrower asks for 'pardon'

From the Associated Press comes this wonderful tale of recantation:
Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush asks for pardon
The jailed journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush has asked for a pardon for what he described as "an ugly act," a spokesman for Iraq's prime minister said Thursday.

Muntadhar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for an Iraqi-owned television station based in Cairo, Egypt, could face two years imprisonment for insulting a foreign leader. He remained in custody Thursday night.

"It is too late to reverse the big and ugly act that I perpetrated," al-Zeidi wrote in a letter delivered to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, according to the prime minister's spokesman.

The spokesman, Yassin Majid, told The Associated Press that al-Zeidi went on in the letter to recall an interview he conducted with the prime minister in 2005 when al-Maliki invited him into his home, saying: "Come in, it is your home too."

"So I ask for your pardon," al-Zeidi wrote, Majid said.
That moke should have thought about their actions before he threw the shoes. That was a major insult in their culture -- he fully well knew what he was doing and to ask for a pardon now is stupid. Posted by DaveH at December 18, 2008 1:28 PM
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