Saturday, January 31, 2009

Iraq sculpture honoring Bush shoe-thrower removed


“Children unwrap the sculpture of a shoe created as a monument to the shoes thrown by an Iraqi journalist …”

BAGHDAD – The director of an Iraqi orphanage says a sculpture honoring an Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush has been removed.

Fatin al-Nassiri says Iraqi police told her the statue had to be removed from the orphanage in Tikrit because government property should not be used for something with a political bias.
She says the sofa-sized statue of a shoe was taken down on Saturday after being unveiled on Thursday.
Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi threw his shoes during a Dec. 14news conference in Baghdad. Throwing shoes at someone is a sign of extreme contempt in Arab culture.

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