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Geneva: Bush Shoe Thrower Gets Hero's Welcome

AP | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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GENEVA — The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush leaned back in his chair and soaked in the round of applause. Th...

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Protesters: Use Your Shoes

Peter Carlson | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

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Peter Carlson

The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at Bush can take comfort in the face that he joins Nikita Khrushchev in the immortal pantheon of Folks Who Use Their Shoes As a Medium for Political Statements.

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Shoe Throwing Incident Exposes Western Failure to Understand Arab World

Ray Hanania | Posted 01.19.2009 | World

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Ray Hanania

Muntandar al-Zaidi, the cameraman for al-Baghdadiya TV, threw his shoe at President Bush not as an act of violence, but because in Arab culture, that is in fact the ultimate form of protest.

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