2 shoe throwing incident with different outcome.

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Forgive Cambridge shoe-thrower


February 09, 2009

Article from: Agence France-Presse
CHINESE Premier Wen Jiabao has urged Cambridge to forgive a student who hurled a shoe at him last week during a speech at the prestigious British university, China's foreign ministry said.
China has described the incident as "despicable'' but the China's ambassador to Britain quoted Wen saying that Cambridge should allow Martin Jahnke, a 27-year-old German national, to continue his studies there.
"I would like to hereby convey the following from Premier Wen: Education is the best help for a young student,'' Ambassador Fu Ying was quoted saying in comments posted on the foreign ministry website over the weekend.
"It is hoped that the university will give the student an opportunity to continue his studies... As a Chinese saying goes, it is more precious than gold for a young person to turn himself around to redress mistakes.''

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...3-2703,00.html

Laura Bush not amused with show thrower: "It was an assault"

While much of the country laughed when President Bush dodged shoes thrown by a reporter in Iraq, Laura Bush said she "was not amused." Laura Bush wouldn't say what should happen to the reported but she believes the incident was "an assault."

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=369_1230570360


Latest news:

Iraq shoe thrower jailed for three years

By Anna Fifield in Beirut
Published: March 12 2009 10:42 | Last updated: March 12 2009 13:19

The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former US president George W. Bush, making him a hero across the Arab world, was on Thursday sentenced to three years in jail after being found guilty of assault.
Muntazer al-Zeidi, a 30-year-old Al-Baghdadiya television reporter, told the Iraq Central Criminal Court that Mr Bush’s “icy smile” made him carry out the action.
Mr Zeidi pleaded not guilty to charges of assaulting a foreign leader, punishable by up to 15 years in jail, but was sentenced to three years. His lawyer vowed to appeal.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e9aec15c-0...0779fd2ac.html


One tyranny has won?

[D-Mack]

Re: 2 shoe throwing incident with different outcome.

He is still alive, I'm not so sure about that if he had thrown something at Dick Cheney

"Right now, today, there was a story in the New York Times that if you read it carefully mentioned something known as the Joint Special Operations Command -- JSOC it’s called. It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. They did not report to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff or to Mr. [Robert] Gates, the secretary of defense. They reported directly to him ..

"Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. Just today in the Times there was a story that its leaders, a three star admiral named [William H.] McRaven, ordered a stop to it because there were so many collateral deaths.

"Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us.

http://www.minnpost.com/ericblackblo...ssination_ring