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Three Years For Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist

March 12, 2009

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Thirty-year-old Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi television reporter who threw his shoes at President Bush back in December, has been sentenced to three years in jail.

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Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.