Recorded from NPR's (National Public Radio's) "All Thjings Considered", September 15th, 2009
The journalist who threw his shoes at George W. Bush during the president's final visit to Iraq last December was released from prison Tuesday and says he was tortured by Iraqi officials during his incarceration.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who served only nine months of a three-year sentence for assault, returned to a hero's welcome at the Baghdad television station where he was working last year.
He claimed that both Iraqi and American forces are still after him and "will spare no efforts to track me as an insurgent revolutionary in a bid to kill me," he told a news conference. His family said he would spend the night in an undisclosed location and then leave the country as soon as possible.
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