Al-Jazeera Video: Al-Zeidi addresses the media - 15 Sep 09

"Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George Bush, the former US president, has been released from jail.

Citing revenge for the suffering of Iraqis during the US invasion as his motivation, and pledging to use his new-found status to promote humanitarian causes, al-Zeidi on Tuesday gave a news conference in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, to give his side of the story.

Watch the news conference here. "