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Muntadhar al-Zeidi spoke during the signing in Beirut, Lebanon, of his first book, Christian Louboutin Pumps The Last Salute to President Bush. The book is a journal chronicling the moments leading up to the now infamous Baghdad news conference on Dec. 14, 2008, at which al-Zeidi shot to fame by hurling his Vibram Five Fingers Classic at Bush and calling him a dog. It also tells the story of Iraqi suffering, starting with the 1991 Gulf War. The signing was timed to coincide with the second anniversary of the shoe throwing incident, which became one of the iconic images of the Iraq war. In the book, he recalls the revulsion he felt when he saw Bush at the joint Baghdad news conference Christian Louboutin Black Patent Leather Pigalle Pumps Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. "In these moments, everything I had seen and heard about the massacres against Iraqis this man had committed came to my mind ... and I felt a thunder in my body," he wrote. Minutes later, he shot up from his chair, threw his shoes toward Bush at the podium and shouted, "This is Christian Louboutin Black Patent Leather Simple Pumps farewell kiss, you dog!" Al-Zeidi was arrested and convicted of assault. He spent nine months in prison, including three in solitary confinement. He said Tuesday that he was beaten and electrocuted for three days by interrogators, some of them related to al-Maliki. He is now suing al-Maliki in a Swiss court and said he expects an arrest warrant to be issued in the next few days. "What I did that day was my duty as a journalist, for all the Iraqi people," he said.