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youtube.com - 12/14/2008

Shoes that beat Saddam's picture [DUBAISESSION.COM] (video)

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[DUBAISESSION.COM]By Mohammad Al-Ghazzi BAGHDAD, April 9 (KUNA) -- Practically, Baghdad had not fallen in the military sense when the allied troops burst int...

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Flying Shoe Thread
Political Animal — Flying Shoe Thread As you have probably heard, an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at president Bush. Here's the video (via TPM ): McClatchy : "As Bush finished remarks that hailed the security progress that led to a U.S.-Iraq agreement that sets a three-year timetable for an American withdrawal, an Iraqi television journalist leapt from his seat, pulled off his shoes and threw them at the president. Striking someone with a shoe is a grave insult in Islam. "This is a goodbye kiss, you dog," the journalist, Muntathar al Zaidi, 29, shouted. Bush ducked the first shoe. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, standing to Bush's left, tried to swat down the second. Neither ...

Flying Shoe Thread
Obsidian Wings — by hilzoy As you have probably heard, an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at president Bush. Here's the video (via TPM): McClatchy: "As Bush finished remarks that hailed the security progress that led to a U.S.-Iraq agreement that sets a three-year timetable for an ...