Iraqi shoe thrower welcomed home

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The Iraqi journalist who threw a pair of shoes at President Bush at a news conference in Baghdad says he was tortured in jail. Muntadar al-Zaidi was released Tuesday after serving nine months, reports BBC.
After leaving prison, Muntadar al-Zaidi went straight to al Baghdadiya - the TV station he was working for at the news conference where he threw the shoes.
Addressing his own news conference, he said he had been tortured: "At the very moment that the Prime Minister Mr al-Maliki was on TV saying he wouldn't rest until he was sure I was sleeping on a comfortable bed, I was being hideously tortured.