What goes around, comes around :-)

Remember the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at Bush?  Well, get this:

The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at former U.S. President George. W. Bush has found himself on the receiving end of a shoe-throwing attack.

Muntadhar al-Zaidi, a TV reporter got a taste of his own medicine on Tuesday as he was nearly hit by another shoe thrower at a news conference in Paris.

Like Mr. Bush, Mr. Al-Zaidi was able to duck and the shoe hit the wall behind him.

The identity of the new shoe-thrower and his motivation -were not immediately clear, but he appeared to be an Iraqi. 'He stole my technique,' Mr. Al-Zaidi later joked.

Whatever his motive, the confrontation didn't stop there. Mr. Al-Zaidi's brother, Maithan, then chased the attacker and pelted him with a shoe as he left the room.

Bush's deal for re-creating shoe-throwing!

Remember that Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at President Bush?
Well, listen to this update:

The Iraqi who threw the shoe at W says ...

When I threw the shoe in the face of the criminal, George Bush, I wanted to express my rejection of his lies, his occupation of my country, my rejection of his killing my people. My rejection of his plundering the wealth of my country, and destroying its infrastructure. And casting out its sons into a diaspora.

Excerpt from Muntazer al-Zaidi's statement at the Guardian.
He ends with:

If I have wronged journalism without intention, because of the professional embarrassment I caused the establishment, I apologise. All that I meant to do was express with a living conscience the feelings of a citizen who sees his homeland desecrated every day. The professionalism mourned by some under the auspices of the occupation should not have a voice louder than the voice of patriotism. And if patriotism needs to speak out, then professionalism should be allied with it.

I didn't do this so my name would enter history or for material gains. All I wanted was to defend my country.

And, to refresh our memories, here is the video of the shoe-toss that echoed around the world: