Posts Tagged ‘Journalist
Yousef Abudayyeh – Duty as a Community and a People
As of the time of this seventh FPA statement, the number of murdered Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had reached at least 434 and those injured exceeded 2,280 with more than 200 in very critical conditions. Full families were slaughtered from infants to parents. Numerous mosques were obliterated as the indiscriminate assault continues unabated.Richard Jones – In Praise of Footwear
Today, Muntazer Al-Zaidi
Put the finishing touches
To the President’s monument,
A memorial to his shame,
For one who yearned for glory
No matter what the cost,
For one who lived
With one foot in his mouth,
Whose mis-speaking spread fear
North, west, east and south,
Whose eyes could never keep still
In their search for someone else to blame,
Israel should be expelled from the UN
By Snorre Lindquist and Lasse Wilhelmson – Stockholm
The Gaza Strip is now the largest concentration camp in the world. The situation grows steadily more insufferable for the 1.5 million Palestinians who live there. Deliveries of food, medicine and fuel are made difficult or stopped altogether. Child malnutrition is increasing. Water supplies and drainage have ceased to function. Children die for lack of healthcare. Tunnels to Egypt, dug by hand, are the only breathing space. Journalists and diplomats are denied entry. Israel is planning more military efforts. The Palestinians in Gaza are now to be starved into surrender and become an Egyptian problem.
Mohamed Khodr – The Shoe Heard Around the World
“This is a farewell kiss, you dog. This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.”
By Mohamed Khodr
“Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view”
–Mahatma Gandhi
“In recent times, we have witnessed landmark events in the history of liberty: A Rose Revolution in Georgia, an Orange Revolution in Ukraine, and now, a Purple Revolution in Iraq.”
–President George W.H. Bush, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, February 24, 2005
Layla Anwar – Another Iraqi Hero: Muntather Al-Zaidi
From An Arab Woman Blues
Bush bidding his last goodbyes in occupied Baghdad. Bush the president of the United Asses reaping the fruits of his labor and that of his American people from my Beloved.
Bush congratulated his stooges, the extra-large Zionist/Kurdish buffoon Talabani and the other Kurdish pimp Barazani. The puppet Tareq Al-Hashemi who was all smiles, and guess whom Bush kissed on the cheeks ? None other than the son of a bitch from Iran, A.Al-Hakeem, head of the Supreme Iranian Butt Council and head of the Badr death squads, whose hands are inundated with the blood of innocent Arab Iraqis.
Iraqi reporter al-Zaidi’s arm, ribs broken
Security agents have broken the arm and ribs of al-Zaidi, a reporter who hurled his shoes at President Bush on Sunday.
“He has got a broken arm and ribs, and cuts to his eye and arm,” the reporter’s brother Durgham told AFP on Tuesday.
“He is being held by forces under the command of Muaffaq al-Rubaie,” he added.
200 lawyers offer to defend Bush shoe attacker
AMMAN: Saddam Hussein’s former lawyer said on Monday he was forming a team to defend the Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at US President George W Bush during his farewell visit to Baghdad.
“So far around 200 Iraqi and other lawyers, including Americans, have expressed willingness to defend the journalist for free,” the Amman-based Khalil al-Dulaimi told AFP. “I took the decision on Sunday night to defend the man after the incident. I am currently contacting Arab bar associations to form a defence committee.”
Arab world hails shoe attack as Bush’s farewell gift
Source: Zawya
Iraq faced mounting calls on Monday to release the journalist who hurled his shoes at George W. Bush, an action branded shameful by the government but hailed by many in the Arab world as an ideal parting gift to the unpopular US president.
Colleagues of Muntazer al-Zaidi, who works for independent Iraqi television station Al-Baghdadia, said he “detested America” and had been plotting such an attack for months against the man who ordered the invasion of his country.
Iraqis demand release of shoe-hurling journalist
Source: Gorey Guardian
Thousands of Iraqis have taken to the streets of several cities today to demand the release of the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush yesterday.
The protests have been organised by supporters of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, with demonstrators chanting: “Bush, Bush listen well: Two shoes on your head.”