The incident with throwing boots happened on 14 December, 2008 in Baghdad during George Bush's “farewell tour” of foreign countries. The journalist threw the boots crying out: “This is not a farewell kiss of Iraqi people for you, dog!”
Within several days al-Zeydi became a national hero of Iraq, but the boots - a symbol of anti-Americanism. A Saudi Arabian businessman was ready to pay at an auction $ 10 mln for a boot. Head of the White House himself thinks that incident with the boots thrown at him is “fun”.
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