"Shoes Fly, Don't Bother Me" soundtrack to Bush's (R) latest visit to Iraq

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Shoe thrower is about to be released to a hero's welcome. He's being showered with gifts, including a brand new house and brides.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/i...-thrower_N.htm

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi TV journalist who threw his shoes at then-president George W. Bush will be showered with gifts including a four-bedroom house — and at least one potential bride — upon his imminent release from jail.

Muntadhar al-Zeidi, 30, is scheduled to be freed Monday after spending nine months in prison for assault, according to Dhiya al-Saadi, his lawyer.

Al-Zeidi hurled both shoes at Bush during a Baghdad news conference last December to protest the U.S. presence in Iraq. Bush ducked twice and was unhurt; the incident was replayed numerous times on TV.

Sheikh Ahmed Jowda, a tribal leader in the West Bank, said he plans to send a young woman from his family "loaded with jewels and gold" to Iraq as a candidate for marriage.

"There are many Palestinian girls who want to marry Muntadhar," Jowda, 75, said by telephone from Nablus. "He chooses the one he likes."

"All Arab people ... hope to get the chance of doing what (al-Zeidi) did," he added.

The journalist's brother, Maitham Mehdi Jbarah al-Zeidi, said he has fielded phone calls "every single day" offering cash and support. "What (he) did was heroic and deserves all this appreciation from people who hate occupation," al-Zeidi said.

The owner of the Cairo-based al-Baghdadiya TV network has continued to pay Muntadhar al-Zeidi's salary and also bought him a fully furnished two-story villa in a posh section of Baghdad, according to station manager Abdul Hameed al-Sayeh.