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Muntazer al-Zaidi [Iraqi Shoe Thrower] ‘My Country is Still a Prisoner of War.’

In Afghanistan, Crime, History, Iraq, News, Opinion, Politics, War, citizenship, fame on 19 September 2009 tagged Abu Ghraib, alluja, Arab, Assyrian, Basra, Christian, Diyala, George W. Bush, Guardian, Haditha, Iraq, Iraq War, Jesus Christ, Kurd, Mosul, Muntazer al-Zaidi, Muslim, Najaf, Sabean, Sadr City, Shia, shoe thrower, Shoes, Sunni, Tal Afar, Turkman, Yazid with View Comments

His words speak for everyone who has seen their homeland destroyed by the brutality of war and occupation in the name of political gains: More than a million martyrs have fallen by the bullets of the occupation and Iraq is now filled with more than five million orphans, a million widows and hundreds of thousands [...]