shoe throwing hero has broken arm, ribs, cuts

The shoe throwing hero Muntazer Zaidi has suffered a broken arm and ribs plus cuts to the eye and arm at the hands of the Iraqi authorities, according to his brother. Laughing off the incident as 'weird' President Bush said yesterday that the incidence was an example of a free society in Iraq. Now it is turning into a public relations disaster in the middle east for the worst American president ever.