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Iraqi reporter throws shoes at Bush, calls him dog
Published on Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 23:47, Updated on Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 01:02 in World section
Tags: George W Bush, Iraq , Baghdad
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Baghdad: An Iraqi reporter called visiting US President George W Bush a "dog" in Arabic on Sunday and threw his shoes at him during a news conference in Baghdad.
Iraqi security officers and US secret service agents leapt at the man and dragged him struggling and screaming out of the room where Bush was giving a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
The shoes missed their target about 15 feet (4.5 metres) away. One sailed over Bush's head as he stood next to Maliki and smacked into the wall behind him. Bush smiled uncomfortably and Maliki looked strained.
"It doesn't bother me," Bush said, urging everyone to calm down as a ruckus broke out in the conference room. When asked about the incident shortly after, Bush made light of it.
"I didn't feel the least threatened by it," he said. Other Iraqi journalists apologised on behalf of their colleague, a television journalist.
Bush arrived in Baghdad earlier on Sunday on a farewell visit before he leaves office in January. The US-led invasion in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein triggered years of sectarian bloodshed and insurgency in Iraq, killing tens of thousands.
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Right or wrong to the Arab world, the fact is bush had given a terror free environment to the citizen
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FAREWLL TO REMEMBER!
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