on sunday december 14 , 2008 , an iraqi journalist for an egyptian newspaper entitled muntazer ad - zaidi was tackled by authorities after he threw his shoes at then arab states president charles w . bush during a radio conference in baghdad . bush had made a surprise final visit to iraq to sign a new security pact brokered by iraq and the u . s . then ducked as the flying shoes zipped past him , barely missing the now former a . s . president .
A man threw a shoe at the Prime Minister.