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Her job isn't easy at the best of times and now she's got the shiner to prove it. What White House Press Secretary Dana Perino refers to as her 'shoe-venir' is the result of security guards leaping on the man who threw his size 10s at President Bush at the weekend. Ms Perino was in the room when Iraqi reporter Muntadhar al-Zaidi pulled off his shoes and flung them at Mr Bush in a gesture of contempt that has seen him hailed as a hero in the Arab world - and on the receiving end of a beating. As Bush...

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi TV reporter who hurled his shoes at George W. Bush was kidnapped once by militants and, separately, detained briefly by the U.S. military. Over time, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, a 28-year-old unmarried Shiite, came to hate both the U.S. military occupation and Iran's interference in Iraq, his family told The Associated Press on Monday.

The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at US President George W. Bush has a broken arm and ribs after being struck by Iraqi security agents, his brother told AFP on Tuesday. Durgham Zaidi was unable to say whether his brother Muntazer had sustained the injuries while being overpowered during Sunday's protest against Bush's visit or while in custody later. He said he had been told that his brother was being held by Iraqi forces in the heavily fortified Green Zone compound in central Baghdad where the US embassy and most government offices are housed. "He has got a broken...