The Iraqi journalist jailed after hurling his shoes at former President George W. Bush, will be released next month after his sentence was reduced for good behaviour.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi’s act during Bush’s last visit to Iraq as President turned the 30-year-old reporter into a folk hero across the Arab world, amid growing anger at the 2003 invasion. He did not use a weapon nor did he try to kill Mr Bush still he was sent to prison. He should get a ... Read More
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The Iraqi journalist jailed after hurling his shoes at former President George W. Bush, will be released next month after his sentence was reduced for good behaviour.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi’s act during Bush’s last visit to Iraq as President turned the 30-year-old reporter into a folk hero across the Arab world, amid growing anger at the 2003 invasion. He did not use a weapon nor did he try to kill Mr Bush still he was sent to prison. He should get a ... Read More
Posted By phw On Wednesday, December 24th 2008 In General, Humour, Pakistan | Tags: bush, journalist, Pakistan, shoe-thrower, shoes, US |
The 'Shoes of Mass Destruction' as termed by the media have been analyzed by the FBI, CIA, Mossad and RAW.
It has been established so far that:
1. The leather originated from Qasur in Pakistan.
2. Stitching was carried out in Sialkot by a shoe maker using child labor; names withheld pending interrogation.
3. The pair was sold by a shoe store in ... Read More
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Tata abandons cheapest car plant
BBC.co.uk
Work at the West Bengal plant was suspended in August
India's Tata group has abandoned plans to build the world's cheapest car in the eastern state of West Bengal.
Tata group chief Ratan Tata said: "We have little choice but to move out of Bengal. We cannot run a factory with police around all the time."
He was speaking after protests in a row over land acquired from local farmers.
The car, the Nano, is expected to cost about 100,000 ... Read More
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Published in The Independent, it is definitely worth reading.
‘Since you were so kind as to greet us in London at Downing Street last month, the President would like to return the favour,” announces Major-General Rashid Qureshi, President Pervez Musharraf’s PR man over the phone. Only in Pakistan could the government’s head of spin be a retired major-general. He is referring to my last encounter with the President on 28 January – when, along with a 2,000-strong, placard-waving, slogan-jeering mob, I ... Read More
