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On This Day Ten Years Ago: An Iraqi Journalist Hurled His Shoes At Bush
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December 14, 2018 1:19 p.m.
On Dec. 14, 2008, President George W. Bush was holding a farewell press conference in Baghdad with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki when he was suddenly interrupted by a flying shoe. A furious Iraqi journalist named Muntadhar al-Zaidi had yanked...
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