Here are your shoes? Mr Bush

President George W. Bush has been attacked by an Iraqi reporter, who hurled a pair of shoes at him on a surprise farewell visit to Baghdad.

However, journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi took off his shoes and flung them across the room at Mr. Bush during a news conference with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. “This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog,” the television reporter for Al Baghdadia yelled in Arabic as he threw his shoes. “This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.”

The shoes narrowly missed the President’s head as he ducked behind a podium. Mr. al-Zaidi was quickly overpowered and frogmarched from the room by security staff. An Iraqi official was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that he was being interrogated at Mr. al-Maliki’s headquarters. His shoes, the official said, were being held as evidence.


while, Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets to demand the release of a reporter who threw his shoes at President George Bush during a press conference