[Pen-l] shoes in the news

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

December 16, 2008 / New York TIMES.
In Iraqi's Shoe-Hurling Protest, Arabs Find a Hero
By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS and ABEER MOHAMMED

BAGHDAD — Calling someone the "son of a shoe" is one of the worst
insults in Iraq. But the lowly shoe and the Iraqi who threw both of
his at President Bush, with widely admired aim, were embraced around
the Arab world on Monday as symbols of rage at a still unpopular war.

In Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported that a man had offered $10
million to buy just one of what has almost certainly become the
world's most famous pair of black dress shoes.

A daughter of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, reportedly
awarded the shoe thrower, Muntader al-Zaidi, a 29-year-old journalist,
a medal of courage.

In the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, people calling for an
immediate American withdrawal removed their footwear and placed the
shoes and sandals at the end of long poles, waving them high in the
air. And in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, people threw their shoes
at a passing American convoy.

more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/world/middleeast/16shoe.html

why does this remind me of the "Life of Brian"?

-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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