The jailed journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush
has asked for a pardon, a spokesman for Iraq's prime minister
has said.
Muntadhar al Zeidi, who remains in custody, could face two
years inside for insulting a foreign leader.
He requested the pardon in a letter delivered to prime minister
Nouri al Maliki.
"It is too late now to regret the big and ugly act that
I perpetrated," wrote al Zeidi, the Egypt-based correspondent
for an Iraqi-owned television station.
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He apparently 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."
