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Wed 04 Apr 2009Bush shoe thrower has sentence cut
An Iraqi reporter jailed for hurling his shoes at former US president George W Bush has had his sentence slashed to one year from three, the Iraqi judiciary council said yesterday.
Muntazer al-Zaidi (30) shot to global fame in December when he threw his shoes at the visiting president, who was deeply unpopular in Iraq because of the 2003 US invasion and the years of insurgency and carnage it unleashed.
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