Avenging the book with his shoes
“He talked incessantly about the subject.” He must have been a charming dinner companion.
“Bush attacker “˜incensed by bullet-riddled Koran,– by Marie Colvin and Ali Rifat for the Times, December 21 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):
THE young Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W Bush had been incensed by a story he covered about an American soldier who used a copy of the Koran for target practice, according to his family.
Muntathar al-Zaydi, 28, who became an overnight hero in the Arab world, worked as a reporter for the popular al-Baghdadiya satellite TV station.
In May he was sent to report on an incident in Radwaniyah, west of Baghdad, in which Islam’s holy book was found riddled with bullets from an American sniper.
“He talked incessantly about the subject,” recalled his elder brother Uday. It was one of a number of assignments that appear to have radicalised Zaydi during his brief journalistic career. […]