(AP Photo/France)
PARIS,France ---- The tables were turned on an Iraqi journalist who pelted President George W. Bush with his shoes in Baghdad last year when he was almost hit by a shoe thrower during a news conference in Paris Tuesday.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who was imprisoned for nine months following the shoe throwing incident was in Paris to talk about his experience when a man in the crowd threw a shoe at him narrowly missing him.
The identity and motivation of the new shoe thrower remains a mystery but he appeared to an Iraqi. It was unclear if the intruder was a journalist or just pretended to be one in order to attend the news conference.
Immediately following the confrontation Al-Zeidi's brother, Maithan ran after the attacker in the audience and struck him with a shoe as he was being escorted out.
"He stole my technique," al-Zeidi later quipped.
In the Arab world throwing shoes or showing the sole of one's shoes is considered highly insulting and is often used as a form of protest.
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to paraphrase . . . " live by the shoe, die by the shoe".
That guy sure has a lot of soul!
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