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Iraqi PM: Shoe-hurler blames throat-slitter |
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By: Agencies |
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Date:
2008-12-23 |
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Place: BAGHDAD |
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Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki moved yesterday to undermine the popularity of the Iraqi, who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush, saying the journalist confessed that the mastermind of the attack was a militant known for slitting his victims' throats.
Al-Maliki said that in a letter of apology to him, Muntazer al-Zaidi wrote, "A person provoked him to commit this act, and that person is known to us for slitting throats," said al-Maliki. The alleged instigator was not named and neither al-Maliki nor any of his officials would elaborate.
Al-Zaidi's family denied the claim and alleged that he was coerced into writing the letter, in which he was said to have requested a pardon for "the big and ugly act that I perpetrated". |
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