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Iraqi Shoe-Tosser's Trial Postponed

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Dec 30, 2008 6:32 am US/Eastern

Iraqi Shoe-Tosser's Trial Postponed

BAGHDAD (AP) ― A spokesman for Iraq's Higher Judicial Court says the trial of the journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush has been postponed.

The trial of Muntadhar al-Zeidi was to begin Wednesday on charges of assaulting a foreign leader. But court spokesman Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar said Tuesday that the trial has been postponed indefinitely pending a high court ruling on what charges the journalist should face.

Al-Zeidi threw his shoes at Bush during a Dec. 14 joint news conference with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

The gesture of contempt for the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq made al-Zeidi a folk hero in Iraq and thousands of people have demonstrated for his release.

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