Within hours of an Iraqi journalist hurling his shoes and an insult at President George W. Bush as he was shaking hands with Iraqi premier Nuri Al-Maliki in his private Baghdad office, uruknet.info portrayed Muntather Al-Zaidi as a “hero”.
As the two leaders were shaking hands, a journalist sitting in the third row suddenly jumped up, shouting: “It is the farewell kiss, you dog,” and threw his shoes one after the other towards Bush. Maliki made a protective gesture towards the U.S. president, who ducked and was not hit.
Writing for uruknet.info, Layla Anwar, whose byline contained the words, “An Arab Woman Blues”, called Americans “dirty motherf---k--s”.