Posted on 07/17/2006 6:48:24 PM PDT by freedom44
MARION, Ill., July 17 (UPI) -- An elderly Afghan man spent a year making a rug and an Illinois military reservist is trying to get it to its intended recipient -- U.S. President George Bush.
Lt. Col. Grayson Giles told The Southern newspaper in Illinois that he was given the rug by a Kabul merchant, who was acting as an intermediary for the Hazara man who had made it.
"I think they were under the mistaken impression that I had all sorts of access to the president, but I told them I would do my best -- that I would get it to him one way or another," Giles said.
The rug, which mixes Christian and Muslim imagery, shows Bush wearing religious vestments, standing at a podium bearing the Great Seal of the United States and flanked by two U.S. flags. The rug also has a picture of Ahmad Shag Masud, the "lion of Panshir," a Northern Alliance leader who was assassinated in 2001.
How absolutely wonderful. Any pic available of the rug?
Maybe I shhould check the link. :)
Wow. I wanna see that rug.
Unfortunately no pic. I would like to see it as well.
Yep, I looked. No pic.
How nice of the elderly man. I hope it gets to POTUS.
That's nice. The left has been busy making a noose at the same time.
Mark is legendary commodities trader who grew up in Afghanistan where his parents were missionaries.
It's a great book all around, but he tells a story about a local there he visited after he had grown up and made it big. I think the local remembered his parents, and welcomed the American millionaire into his mud-floored hut with a grace and honor that laid the author low.
It was a very touching scene, and an insight into local lore and the predicament of the Afghan peasant that you just won't get from CNN.
Wow. Amazing work.
Doh-Doh!!!
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Absolutely Awesome!
...and thanks for the pic
Great story.
I hope it gets to Pres. Bush and that someone finally gets a photo out.
Wow! Awesome. Thanks
Thank you!
WOW -- it's a beauty.
oh, my that imagery is probably prophetic. wow.
Wow, one just wishes something one moment and the next, there it is! Thanks for posting it.
Thank you. It sounds like a book I will enjoy.
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