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Verfasst am: So Dez 14, 2008 9:50 pm Titel: Iraqi reporter throws shoe at Bush during farewell visit! |
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Hahaha! Welche Blamage fuer die USA!
Dieses Foto wird vermutlich in keiner deutschen Zeitung gezeigt werden. Denn wer will sich fuer seinen besten Freund schaemen?
Iraqi reporter throws shoe at Bush during president's farewell visit to Iraq
By Associated Press
14/12.08
U.S. President Bush ducks as two shoes come flying at him during press conference in Iraq. (Reuters)
An Iraqi television news reporter threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush and called him a "dog" in Arabic, during a press conference in Baghdad on Sunday, U.S. television station ABC has reported.
Iraqi security officers and U.S. 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 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, adding: "Whoever it interests - it was a size ten that he threw at me."
In Arab cultures being attacked with shoes is a sign of profound disrespect, as is being compared to a canine.
Bush on Sunday made a farewell visit to Iraq, a place that defines his presidency, just 37 days before he hands the war off to a successor who has pledged to end it.
Air Force One landed at Baghdad International Airport in the afternoon, after a secretive Saturday night departure from Washington and an 11-hour flight. In a sign of modest security gains in this war zone, Bush was welcomed with a formal arrival ceremony - a flourish that was not part of his previous three trips to Iraq.
Bush planned a quick series of meetings with senior Iraqi leaders, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He and Bush were marking the recent security agreement between the two nations.
Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, said the agreement was a remarkable document - unique in the Arab world because it was publicly
debated, discussed and adopted by an elected parliament.
Hadley said the trip shows "that we are moving into a different relationship... with Iraqis rightfully exercising greater sovereignty, we in an increasingly subordinate role."
It was Bush's last trip to the war zone before President-elect Barack Obama takes office Jan. 20. Bush's most recent Iraq stop was over 15 months ago, in September 2007.
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