Secret Service Defends Shoe Response

From The Washington Post:

The U.S. Secret Service yesterday defended its agents' response to an Iraqi journalist who threw a pair of shoes at President Bush during a Baghdad news conference, saying that they acted with the proper balance of aggressiveness and restraint.

Eric Zahren, a Secret Service spokesman in Washington, also said it will be up to Iraqi officials to prosecute Muntadar al-Zaidi, the journalist arrested in Sunday's incident.

"No one should read anything more into it than what it was, which was an individual throwing a shoe," Zahren said.

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Update #1: Iraq to probe 'custody abuse' of Bush shoe assailant -- Breitbart/AFP