Muntadar al-Zaidi, 29, was expected to appear in court on Wednesday charged with assaulting a foreign leader, and faced a maximum sentence of 15 years.
But after an appeal, a higher court is now deciding whether he should face the lesser charge of insulting a leader. ...
Lawyers for Mr Zaidi said their appeal was based on the fact that he had simply been expressing his opposition to the US presence in Iraq and that Mr Bush had never been in serious danger.
"Have you ever heard of anyone being killed by a shoe?" lawyer Dhiaa al-Saadi told Reuters.
"In Europe, they throw eggs and rotten tomatoes to insult. In Iraq, throwing a shoe is a symbol of disrespect."
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Monday, December 29
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From Star public editor Kathy English's column of Dec. 27: more » Sunday, December 28
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Could the nattering nabobs of negativism in the U.S. news media be making the economis situation there worse? more »Friday, December 26
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on Fri 26 Dec 2008 08:43 PM EST
Richard Black suggests that with climate change not sucking up quite as much air time, there was a chance for some other important environmental issues to move up in prominence. more »
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From Ivor Tossell's Globe and Mail column: more »
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on Fri 26 Dec 2008 06:40 PM EST
From the Globe and Mail (Dec. 24):
This stub of an article noted that Twitter's user base expanded by 600 per cent during 2008.
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on Fri 26 Dec 2008 12:51 PM EST
There wasn't the same nutty deluge of "celebrity" news in 2008 as in 2007. Salon's Sarah Hepola explores what she deems the end of the tabloid era. From Salon.com: more »
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on Fri 26 Dec 2008 12:45 AM EST
Would he have gone with the anti-gay, anti-Semitic Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran? Britain's Channel 4 did, and the sparks are flying. more »
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on Fri 26 Dec 2008 12:14 AM EST
Saw a pointer via Clay Shirky on Twitter to this:
Hmmm. Which way will Google and Yahoo go on this one? Call me crazy, but I think they'll put profits ahead of principle. Wednesday, December 24
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billdoskoch
on Wed 24 Dec 2008 09:25 PM EST
I'm writing this at 9:25 p.m. ET (just got home from work), so maybe a miracle will happen in the next few hours.
Lindhout, Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan and their Somali helpers were grabbed by their captors on Aug. 23. See this Sept. 25 Maclean's item, Kidnapped in Somalia, for a story about what happened. The blog Free Amanda Lindhout monitors ongoing developments. It hasn't been updated since Dec. 10. Reporters sans frontieres, one of the premiere organizations speaking up for journalists in trouble, has been silent about Lindhout for months. Maybe no news is good news. Amanda, as a fellow Canadian journalist, all I can say I hope this ordeal is ended as soon as possible so you and your colleagues can get home to your families and practicing journalism again. I know it's trite to say it, but Merry Christmas, and I hope you somehow know you are not forgotten. The same sentiment applies to all journalists who find themselves in similar straits at this time. "It's a sad thing, but I think you have to have been a prisoner of some kind, your freedom has to have been taken from you completely, for you to completely understand its importance and value and beauty." - BBC journalist Alan Johnston
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on Wed 24 Dec 2008 09:11 PM EST
Torontoist's date with the dustbin of history has been pushed back as editor David Topping with forego his salary to keep the blog alive -- an admittedly temporary solution. more »
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on Wed 24 Dec 2008 01:01 AM EST
Globe and Mail columnist Rick Salutin described Munater al-Zaidi's gesture towards U.S. President George W. Bush on Dec. 14 as "symbolic and non-violent." more »Tuesday, December 23
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billdoskoch
on Tue 23 Dec 2008 11:59 PM EST
So. In about a week, we'll find out whether the Iraqi justice system sees al-Zaidi's actions as simply a man exercising his freedom of expression or as something more sinister. I wonder if Dubya will be called as a witness, and if so, for whom? If he testified the accused was just acting like a free Iraqi, wouldn't that go to the issue of intent? Or is my thinking a little too anglo?
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A tiny New Jersey weekly newspaper avoids the Internet like the plague, but has also avoided many of the financial problems plaguing larger newspapers. But is there much to learn from its model? more »Monday, December 22
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on Mon 22 Dec 2008 01:02 AM EST
A twitter feed, themediaisdying, had just over 3,000 followers on Dec. 14, when the NYT wrote about it. That number has ballooned to more than 7,200 as I write this. more »
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The NYT columnist asked his readers for advice when he launched a Twitter feed a few weeks ago. I cull some of the more useful responses: more »
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But as it stands now, 27-year-old Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout of Sylvan Lake, Alta. won't be home for Christmas. She's being held captive in Somalia.