Layla Anwar – Another Iraqi Hero: Muntather Al-Zaidi
By Guest Post • Dec 15th, 2008 at 10:02 • Category: Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War
From An Arab Woman Blues
Bush bidding his last goodbyes in occupied Baghdad. Bush the president of the United Asses reaping the fruits of his labor and that of his American people from my Beloved.
Bush congratulated his stooges, the extra-large Zionist/Kurdish buffoon Talabani and the other Kurdish pimp Barazani. The puppet Tareq Al-Hashemi who was all smiles, and guess whom Bush kissed on the cheeks ? None other than the son of a bitch from Iran, A.Al-Hakeem, head of the Supreme Iranian Butt Council and head of the Badr death squads, whose hands are inundated with the blood of innocent Arab Iraqis.
The criminal psychopath, Bush last stop, was at a press conference with his other puppet, the sectarian dictator, from Iran, PM Nuri Al-Maliki.
And whilst Bush was pontificating from his ass, Muntather Al-Zaidi, a 28 years old journalist, a leftist, from the independent anti-occupation, anti-sectarian TV, Al-Baghdadia, stood up and threw not one shoe but TWO pair of shoes at Bush, calling him at the top of his voice YA KALB – YOU DOG.
Al Jazeera's excellent news anchor the IRAQI Layla Al-Sheikhly was the only one to report the slur and insult to the President of the United Asses. His last visit indeed and a souvenir from a patriotic Iraqi. Subsequent news censored the insult – YA KALB-YOU DOG.
Let me tell you more about Muntather Al-Zaidi. Muntather was kidnapped, tortured and humiliated and when released he resumed his work as a journalist at the Baghdadia TV. He graduated from Baghdad University in Journalism and was active pre-2003 in the Iraqi Federation /Student Union and was/is known to be a vehement opposer to the dual occupation of my Beloved.
One of his colleagues confirmed that Muntather came to the press conference late, and his other colleagues from the same TV station had preceded him way before. This other colleague also confirmed that they had to stand for hours for stringent security checks before being allowed to enter the press hall.
Muntather as a dignified Iraqi, used the only weapon available to him – HIS SHOES.
He threw the first one with such dexterity, Bush ducked and within seconds he threw the second one and aimed right above that bastard's head and landed smash into the American flag. I think that Muntather was hoping to aim the other shoe at Maliki, the puppet.
Needless to say about 5 men or more, dressed in civil clothes and some of them were American dogs, threw themselves on this HERO Muntather. Amidst the stupor and shouts, I could hear his screams while he was being kicked, his hair pulled, and his face scratched…
We all watched it and Mom and I burst into tears, tears of happiness and tears of grief.
Happiness because Muntather filled us with hope, hope that there are still brave heroes left in Iraq. Mom even called him the Salah El-Deen Al Ayubi /the new Saladin.
A historical moment in the Iraqi tragedy indeed and during Bush's last visit !
A historical moment that will be recorded as the ultimate humiliation to any American president and to the "American Empire" hahahahahahaha.
We were also filled with grief and recited the Fateeha, because we knew that Muntather Al-Zaidi signed his own death warrant. This guy is finished.
Mom added that he will be tortured first, most probably with shoes before his execution.
Muntather Al-Zaidi was aware that the consequences of such an act will bring the wrath of the sectarian Shiites and zionists Kurdish puppets and that of the Americans on his head. But he risked it anyway…like a TRUE IRAQI HERO giving his occupier the ultimate humiliation next to the military defeat of America – because America has been DEFEATED in Iraq.
Yes, you dirty motherfuckers, NO VICTORY for you in IRAQ. No victory as long as people like Muntather exist…
I therefore urge all people of conscience, in particular Journalists without Borders, any syndicate or union of journalists anywhere in the world, to mobilize themselves for the release of Muntather before he gets executed.
I will leave you with an Iraqi song by Bassem Al-Ali singing for the Iraqis, all of the TRUE Iraqis, saying : You, Iraqi don't bow your head down and don't kneel. All the others will be defeated.
Long Live the Iraqi Resistance. Long Live Iraq !
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I'm just loving this! I thought my friend Layla would have smth to say on the matter, I wonder how many Diggs this will get? But but:
200 lawyers offer to defend Bush shoe attacker
* Detained journalist’s employer calls for his ‘immediate release’
AMMAN: Saddam Hussein’s former lawyer said on Monday he was forming a team to defend the Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at US President George W Bush during his farewell visit to Baghdad.
“So far around 200 Iraqi and other lawyers, including Americans, have expressed willingness to defend the journalist for free,”
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C12%5C16%5Cstory_16-12-2008_pg4_5
Free Muntather al-Zaidi
The 50,000 Signatures Campaign for Muntather al-Zaidi
The campaign will proceed in demand of the release of the Iraqi Journalist, Muntather Al-Zaydi who hurled a pair of shoes at George Bush on 12/14/2008 in Baghdad in reaction to Bush's immoral invasion of Iraq and the war-crimes committed by the occupying forces with the aid of local warlords. We hereby sign below to demand the immediate release of the Journalist Montadhar Al-Zaydi, without any constraints or conditions. We also hold Al-Maliki's government and the Bush administration accountable and responsible for his life, dignity, and well-being… http://www.uruknet.de/?p=49604
But if you want to keep chuckling… Google 'Auntie Ziona'
Layla was and still is – imho – the best blogger on the net…
from: Hussein Al-alak
SHOE PROTEST AT US EMBASSY IN LONDON
1PM, FRIDAY 19 DECEMBER
The shoe protest at George Bush's press conference in the Baghdad Green by Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi has made him a hero across the Middle East. When he shouted at Bush "This is for the widows and orphans of Iraq", he expressed the unreported feelings of millions in Iraq and beyond that the Bush occupation has been a disaster and that it should end immediately.
Since the protest Muntadar al-Zaidi has been held in custody and according to the BBC has been subject to brutal treatment. His brother has said that since his arrest he has a broken wrist, broken ribs and internal bleeding.
We are asking people to join the protest and bring shoes to be delivered to the Embassy with the letter in solidarity with the Iraqi people.
SHOE PROTEST AT US EMBASSY
1PM, FRIDAY 19 DECEMBER,
Grovsvenor Square
London W1A 2LQ
The Iraq Solidarity Campaign and the Stop the War is supporting this protest and is asking people to bring shoes to hand in to the Embassy
Assaulting a foerign leader in Iraq was illegal both under Saddam and under the constitution of 2004. What kind of a a backward nation would our Iraq be, if we didn't enforce the law? Al-Maliki and the united iraqi alliance is an elected government by the people of Iraq. For all you who say he is a puppet, you are wrong!
The Allied forces drove away the "Tikriti" dynasty, who drove Iraq into two wars and sanctions breaking international law and letting the Iraqis suffer as a result. Al Zaidi is a criminal, and deserves the death penalty. All you Arabs who open your borders letting foreign fighters in Iraq, i have news for you, the US has already won, violence now is non-existance. Iraq in ten years will be a regional superpower and ally of the west while you Arabs, and your backward mentality and thinking is causing your people to be starving on the streets, and you'll be begging to work in Iraq. Just wait.
kin hell bud the guy just killed a million ppl on a barrel of lies & deserves a darn sight more than shoes being chucked at him! He deserves the same fate as Saddam & that is coming from a non-Arab Englishman. In ten years time ppl will be begging for work anywhere but
Oh yes! Vast improvements…
IRAQ: Poor sell kidneys just to survive
Nizar Latif,Abu Zahra arrived in Baghdad two years ago, coming north from the city of Amarah. He brought along his wife, three daughters, a son and his dreams of getting a job that would end their life of poverty. He found work, washing cars, but with earnings of less than US$10 (Dh37) a day, it did nothing to make them richer. So he is planning to sell one of his kidneys. "I had hopes at first, but things were no better here," he said. "We lived in small, dirty rooms, I had this idea that I would be able to save a little money and slowly build myself up…Another immigrant to Baghdad from southern Iraq, 27-year-old Ihsan Mekad, said he had also decided to sell his kidney after years of scraping by with manual or menial jobs. "A lot of workers are doing this," he said. "It’s a way out. I’ve got a rich family with a man who needs a new kidney and they’ll give me $12,000 for mine. It’s something I’d rather not do, but I will…
Read the full article : http://www.uruknet.de/?p=52960
One third of Falluja youth illiterate, says study (just how America likes it!)
Omer al-Mansouri, AzzamanMore than one third the young people in the city of Falluja cannot read and write, a new study has revealed. The study by the Cultural House, an independent Iraqi group measuring education and illiteracy in Iraq, also shows a significant increase in the number of dropouts in Falluja schools….Nafai Raheem, a top Iraqi education expert, who took part in the study, said 2008 exam results were the worst in Falluja’s history. "Only 20% of pupils enrolled in Falluja schools passed their exams in 2008," he said. Raheem attributed the worsening educational standards in the city to U.S. occupation and the rising levels of violence in the country…
Read the full article : http://www.uruknet.de/?p=52961