’Shoe pitcher of Baghdad

THE STANDARD - In Tikrit, the home town of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, is Wednesday unveiled a statue in honor of the 'Shoe pitcher of Baghdad. Eyewitnesses have reported.The three-meter-high sculpture, which proposes a shoe, was drawn up in the courtyard of the building of an organization for child welfare.

By throwing the shoes, that Bush could circumvent called it: "This is a goodbye kiss, dog. This is for the widows, orphans and those who are slain in Iraq. "

In the Arab world, as a gesture of deep contempt for someone as the sole of your shoe shows, and especially if your shoe to his / her head throws. Al-Zaidi is in jail and awaiting his trial. He risks a long imprisonment. At the modest ceremony in Tikrit, 180 kilometers north of Baghdad, there were no dignitaries.