Published 10:18 IST, July 6th 2020

Twitterati fishes for man who threw shoes at then US President George Bush; strikes gold

More than a decade later, a Twitter user has managed to find the man who flung a shoe at then US President George Bush during his 2008 press conference in Iraq

Reported by: Ananya Varma
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Even more than a decade later, Twitterati have shown ability to find man who flung a shoe at former US President George Bush during his press conference in Iraq in 2008 almost at will. In an interesting series of events, an account put out a tweet saying that best thing about Twitter was that whenever Bush shoeing incident was mentioned, actual guy who did it responded. Just like he predicted, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, journalist who was responsible for incident, responded with a 'Thank you.'

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Netizens react 

After nearly 12 years, netizens took to Twitter to laud Iraqi journalist for throwing his shoes at George Bush, thanking him for 'his service.' Some even requested if he could st something similar during one of current US President Donald Trump's press conferences. 

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Bush Shoe-ing Incident 

On December 14, 2008, during President George Bush's press conference in Iraq, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi flung both of his shoes as a mark of protest against Bush who was supposed to retire soon, following inauguration of his successor Barack Obama. 

"This is a farewell kiss from Iraqi people, dog", yelled Iraqi journalist when he threw his first shoe."This is for widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq," he shouted as he threw his second shoe. Both shoes were dodged by George Bush shortly after which Al-Zaidi was dragged out of room by guards.

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Iraqi journalist received massive support worldwide for his incident forcing authorities to reduce his three-year prison sentence, to two years. However, he was released even earlier in September 2009, after nine months of incarceration, due to his orwise impeccably clean criminal record.

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10:18 IST, July 6th 2020