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Iraqi shoe tosser becomes Arab world celebrity.(Inside Track)(Muntazar al-Zaidi)
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During the press conference in Baghdad for his December trip to Iraq, President George W. Bush hailed progress in the war that defines his presidency, but got a reminder of his unpopularity when a man hurled two shoes at him, an act considered to be the ultimate insult in Arab society.
"This is a farewell kiss, you dog!" shouted the protester in Arabic, later identified as Muntazar al-Zaidi, a correspondent for Al-Baghdadia television, an Iraqi-owned station based in Cairo, Egypt. Bush ducked both shoes as they whizzed past his head and landed with a thud against the wall behind him. "It was a size 10," Bush joked to reporters, "I don't know what the guy said but I saw his sole."
The U.S. president was visiting the Iraqi capital just five weeks before he hands the war off to his successor, Barack Obama, who has pledged to end it. The president wanted to highlight a drop in violence in a nation still seething with ethnic strife and to celebrate a recent U.S.-Iraq security agreement, which calls for U.S. troops ...
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