The Iraqi journalist surprises the room as he launches his shoes at Bush(Photo from The Daily Mail)
Iraqi Journalist Who Threw Shoes Asks For Pardon
-- Yahoo News/AP
-- Yahoo News/AP
BAGHDAD – The jailed journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush has asked for a pardon, a spokesman for Iraq's prime minister said Thursday.
In a letter delivered to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the journalist described his behavior as "an ugly act" and asked to be pardoned, spokesman Yassin Majid told The Associated Press.
"It is too late to now regret the big and ugly act that I perpetrated," Muntadhar al-Zeidi wrote, according to Majid.
Majid told the AP that al-Zeidi went on in the letter to recall an interview he conducted with the prime minister in 2005 when al-Maliki invited him into his home, saying: "Come in, it is your home too."
"So I ask for your pardon," al-Zeidi wrote, Majid said.
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