Muntazer al-Zaidi votes in prison (Iraqi journalist with shoe pitching talent)

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Muntazer al-Zaidi votes in prison
From correspondents in Baghdad
Agence France-Presse
January 31, 2009 09:30pm


THE Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at former US president George W. Bush in Baghdad has voted in secret from his prison cell in the country's provincial election.
"Muntazer al-Zaidi voted on January 28,'' an official with the Central Criminal Court of Iraq said.

"Nobody was allowed to ask him whom he would vote for so it would not be considered as a way of trying to influence his choice.''

Police, soldiers, hospital patients and prisoners cast advance votes on Wednesday to avoid the security, logistical and electoral fraud problems which plagued the 2005 parliamentary elections.


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[DoctorMyEyes]

1. He's still in jail?

That fucking sucks and if Bush had even one thousandth of an ounce of decency in his body he'd publicly ask that the guy be pardoned.