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After the attacks, the incident was parodied numerous times on the internet. These included online games such as "Sock and Awe" and "Flying Babush", as well as GIFs. Videos of the event went viral on YouTube, [114] [115] with CBS's video of the incident accruing almost 10.8 million views as of August 2024. [116]
Muntadhar al Zaidi became a symbol of resistance when he threw his shoes at president Bush. Years later, he has no regrets, writes Richard Hall The man who threw his shoes at George Bush is still ...
Replica of the shoe thrown at George W. Bush in a New York Museum.. 7 April: Arbab Ghulam Rahim, the former Chief Minister of Sindh, Pakistan, was leaving the back door of the Sindh assembly building after taking oath as a newly elected member when he was hit by a shoe allegedly thrown by Agha Javed Pathan, a worker from the Pakistan Peoples Party.
Video of the incident. During a 14 December 2008 press conference at the prime minister's palace in Baghdad, Iraq, al-Zaidi threw both of his shoes at then-United States president George W. Bush. [29] "This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog," yelled al-Zaidi in Arabic as he threw his first shoe towards Bush. [30] "
Bush and Georgia president Mikheil Saakashvili, May 10, 2005. On May 10, 2005, while Bush was giving a speech in Freedom Square, Vladimir Arutyunian, a native Georgian who was born to a family of ethnic Armenians, threw a live Soviet-made RGD-5 hand grenade toward the podium. It landed in the crowd about 61 feet (19 m) from the podium after ...
Bush, who was president at the time of the attacks, spoke emotionally about the lessons of 9/11, the heroism of the people on board Flight 93 and the broader spirit of America.
On December 14, 2008, journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at President George W. Bush during a press conference with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, Iraq, but Bush ducked below both. [66] In 2009, multiple eggs were thrown at Senator Norm Coleman by a man at his door, but all of them missed. [66]
Mike Milbury, a Boston Bruin, entered the Madison Square Garden stands on December 23, 1979, disciplining an unruly fan with the fan's own shoe. Muntadhar al-Zaidi, George W. Bush shoe throwing incident; Sheila Dixon, in 1991 Dixon waved her shoe at colleagues on the Baltimore City Council; Jarnail Singh (born 1973) threw shoe at P. Chidarbram