SKY NEWS: The jailed journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush has asked for a pardon, a spokesman for Iraq's prime minister has said.
Muntadhar al Zeidi, who remains in custody, could face two years inside for insulting a foreign leader.
He requested the pardon in a letter delivered to prime minister Nouri al Maliki.
"It is too late now to regret the big and ugly act that I perpetrated," wrote al Zeidi, the Egypt-based correspondent for an Iraqi-owned television station.
He apparently went on in the letter to recall an interview he conducted with the prime minister in 2005 when al Maliki invited him into his home, saying: "Come in, it is your home too."
"So I ask for your pardon," al Zeidi wrote.
Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani, can issue constitutional pardons if recommended by the prime minister, with the exception of certain offences, including international crimes.
In Washington, a State Department spokesman confirmed the Iraqi authorities were dealing with the matter. >>> | Thusday, December 18, 2008
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