Iraqi Tosser Planned for a Year

There is a report that the shoe attacker may have been financed by Saddam’s daughter, and that he was in with the Baathists planning the coup recently rolled up by the Maliki government. There did seem something staged about that whole press-conference attack.

The report says Al-Zaidi planned his attack for a year, and had handlers who “may have been funded by Raghad, the eldest daughter of former dictator Saddam Hussein.”

Planned for a year? Handlers? Financing? To take your shoes off and throw them at a target ten feet away? And he still missed his target.

If the connection with resurging Baathists is true, it’s all the more reason to be grateful (thanks to you-know-who) that the Iraqi Baathists were reduced from having Scuds and other deadly missiles to lob at their enemies to now just having shoes.