- Lebanese — Iraqi Aya­tol­lah Moham­mad Hus­sein Fad­hil Allah, released a state­ment on the Iraqi jour­nal­ist Al-Zaidi

We know that the Amer­i­can pol­icy in the region is the major cause of the insta­bil­ity to keeps it dom­i­nated by wars and con­flicts …. This wrong doing will open more fail­ures and more shoes.

Al-Baghdadia released more images of Al-Zaidi appoint­ing six lawyers to defend the jour­nal­ist, and Al-Arabiya says that he is heav­ily tortured.

- Sources revealed to Kuwaiti news­pa­per Al-Rai that Syria refuses to nor­mal­ize its rela­tion with Bagh­dad because Dam­as­cus wants to play a “lead­ing role” in Iraq and not just as a neigh­bor­ing country.

- Over­shad­owed by yes­ter­day “shoes inci­dent”, Azza­man reported that Bush had spe­cial four hours meet­ing with Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim, but this is very interesting:

In his depar­ture, Bush warmly shock hands with Iraqi lead­ers, except Al-Hakim who kissed with Bush [from the cheeks I assume].