Protester in Istanbul throws shoe at IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn...

A student journalist threw a shoe at IMF Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Thursday and ran toward the stage shouting "IMF get out!" as the finance official answered questions at a university in Istanbul.

The white sports shoe missed the IMF chief and landed on the platform. Strauss-Kahn moved to the side but was not in any danger of being hit, and a security guard rushed to protect him.

Other guards quickly blocked the man — a student and a journalist with a small left-wing newspaper — from reaching the speakers platform. They pushed him to the floor, covered his mouth with their hands and then dragged him from the hall. More...

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