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To: The Reaper who wrote (172027)12/17/2008 1:51:06 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favorRead Replies (2) | Respond to of 306849
 
Geez, it was a shoe. I suppose if the guy threw a cream pie at him he'd get the firing squad......



To: The Reaper who wrote (172027)12/17/2008 2:08:37 PM
From: Smiling BobRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 306849
 
From what I had heard, he had recently been kidnapped and tortured and has lost several members of his family in the war.
I'm not certain of who was responsible. But he's not too happy about the situation or Bush's role.
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Found this
news.bbc.co.uk
...He said that Mr Zaidi was a graduate of communications from Baghdad University.

"He has no ties with the former regime. His family was arrested under Saddam's regime," he said.

Mr Zaidi has previously been abducted by insurgents and held twice for questioning by US forces in Iraq.

In November 2007 he was kidnapped by a gang on his way to work in central Baghdad and released three days later without a ransom.

He said at the time that the kidnappers had beaten him until he lost consciousness, and used his necktie to blindfold him.

Mr Zaidi never learned the identity of his kidnappers, who questioned him about his work before letting him go