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Sounds. Hi, you're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me

Vicky Vancom. I'm taking you back to 2008 when an Iraqi reporter hurled his shoes

at the President of the United States. Just to warn you, this program includes descriptions of torture.

I felt I had a foot in this world and a foot in the other world. I felt I was definitely

going to face the end of my life.

It's the 14th of December 2008 and Iraqi TV journalist

Mundadar al-Zaidi is scared. He's just discovered the President of the United

States George Bush is in Baghdad and will be giving a joint press

conference with the Iraqi Prime Minister Nory al-Maliki.

I had been looking out for him but I had almost given up the hope I would ever come across him.

As a correspondent for Al-Bagdadia, an independent Iraqi television station,

Muntadar has covered stories of bombings, house shellings,

and the killing of Iraqi citizens by US soldiers.

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