POLITICS - A spokesman for Iraq's prime minister claims the journalist who threw his shoes at United States President George W. Bush is asking for a pardon.Spokesman Yassin Majid says that in a letter sent today to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi asked to be pardoned. In the letter Muntadhar al-Zeidi recalls the kindness prime minister al-Maliki once showed him during an interview in 2005 and asked for al-Maliki to show him kindness once again.
Al-Zeidi has been horribly beaten to near death by Iraqi security and faces two years imprisonment for insulting a foreign leader. Iraqi protestors say throwing your shoes at a leader is a democratic right, a traditional insult and should not be punished. Many Iraqi politicians can't agree whether to punish Al-Zeidi or not.
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