CNN Baghdad correspondent Michael Ware reports that Muntader
al-Zaidi — the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President
Bush yesterday during a press conference — “is being
investigated for possible charges not connected to assaulting
President Bush, but for doing it in front of the Iraqi Prime Minister
and hurling the shoes in the Prime Minister’s general direction
rather than at President Bush’s head.” After CNN host
T.J. Holmes clarified that “just because the Iraqi Prime
Minister was in the vicinity that might really be what gets him
in trouble,” Ware responded, “Yeah brother, this is
Iraq.” Watch it:
This morning Ware reported the Maliki’s office explained
the charges by arguing that “it’s not easy to say
who exactly he threw the shoes at.”
