Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi reporter who threw a shoe at George W. Bush, was released from jail yesterday, leading the Christian Science Monitor to reflect on other top “footwear misusers” through the years:
- Richard Reid: The would-be shoe bomber brought homemade explosives onto a flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001, but they didn’t work. He did succeed, however, in annoying travelers, who now have to remove their shoes to go through airport security.