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Here’s an article to add to this ‘last look at the shoe’…….
Iraqi Shoe-Hurling Journalist Said to Ask for Pardon
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By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS and ATHEER KAKAN
Published: December 18, 2008
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi television journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush during a news conference this week has apologized to the
So today I went to the Blue Genie gift bazaar in search of some goodies for my favorite nieces, and lo an’ behol’, what did I see but a regulation-size plastic “Throwing Shoe”! These must have been made b4 the recent incident, right???
lol