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• Dec. 17: Pakistani protesters hold photographs of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who hurled shoes at U. S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Iraq, at a rally for his release outside the United States Consulate in Lahore, Pakistan.
• Dec. 17: An effigy of U.S. President George W. Bush burns as a university student holds a picture of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi, left, during a rally to demand his release from custody in Iraq, in Beirut, Lebanon. Al-Zeidi, who threw his shoes at President Bush, appeared before a judge Wednesday but in his jail cell, his brother said, alleging the reporter must have been too seriously injured to appear in a courtroom.
• Dec. 17: A Pakistani man kisses a photograph of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who threw his shoes at U. S. President George Bush during a press conference in Iraq, during a rally outside the U.S. Consulate in Lahore, Pakistan.
• Dec. 17: Shoes are set atop an effigy of U.S. President George W. Bush as university students rally to demand the release of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi from custody in Iraq. The Iraqi journalist al-Zeidi threw his shoes at President George W. Bush on Sunday.
• Dec. 17: An effigy of U.S. President George W. Bush burns as university students rally in Beirut, Lebanon, to demand the release of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi, from custody in Iraq. The Iraqi journalist al-Zeidi threw his shoes at President George W. Bush on Sunday.
• Dec. 17: A man holds up a print depicting Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as a goal keeper trying to catch flying shoes during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq. Hundreds demonstrated demanding the release of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi who was arrested after throwing his shoes at President George W. Bush during a press conference Sunday.
• Dec. 17: Supporters of Pakistani religious party Jamaat-i-Islami hold a huge model of a shoe during a rally supporting the Iraqi journalist who hurled shoes on U. S. President George Bush during a press conference in Iraq.