WASHINGTON - US ACTIVISTS on Monday urged Baghdad to release the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at US President George W. Bush, insisting that his gesture was meant to insult, not harm the US leader.
'This was a form of insult... If he had wanted to hurt George Bush, he would have chosen a different weapon,' Mr Medea Benjamin of the Codepink peace activism group said at a rally of about a dozen people outside the Iraqi consulate in Washington.
