"He has stood up against the silence and the lies that we have been forced to take all too often in the British and international media," said David Crouch, the chairman of Media Workers Against The War, a group representing anti-war journalists.
"Our role is to give a voice to people who don't have a voice and for that reason al-Zeidi might as well have thrown 27 million shoes at George Bush, because he was speaking for the vast overwhelming majority of the Iraqi population," Crouch said.
The protest ended when demonstrators dumped their shoes - including high heels, sneakers, and slippers - into a box in front of the U.S. Embassy at London's Grosvenor Square.
