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Ahmadinejad Missed in Shoe “Attack” in Egypt
ABC News ^
| Feb 5, 2013 3:15pm
| Rym Momtaz, Lee Ferran
Posted on 02/05/2013 3:28:54 PM PST by Olog-hai
Video captured what appeared to be a man using a shoe to try and strike Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today as the Iranian president greeted a crowd in Egypt.
The video, uploaded to YouTube by the Anadolu Agency, a Turkish news service, shows Ahmadinejad in a crush of people smiling and shaking hands until a bearded man comes in the frame holding a shoe high over his head. The shoe comes down twice in Ahmadinejad’s direction, but too far from the Iranian leader to pose a threat. …
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; egypt; iran; shoethrowing
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posted on
02/05/2013 3:29:03 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Obviously the wrong kinda shoe. How about this one?
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posted on
02/05/2013 3:32:48 PM PST
by
444Flyer
(Obama killed the Twinkie, but not the terrorists in Benghazi. What's wrong with this picture?)
To: Olog-hai
The dreaded shoe attack, it sounds like Monty Python.
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posted on
02/05/2013 3:33:36 PM PST
by
ansel12
(Romney is a longtime supporter of homosexualizing the Boy Scouts (and the military).)
To: Olog-hai
To: ansel12
In that part of the world, it is a tremendous insult to point the bottom of your foot at someone, or touch them with it.
Still silly...but that is why shoes keep getting thrown.
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posted on
02/05/2013 3:53:06 PM PST
by
lacrew
(Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
To: lacrew
I know about the soles of feet, shoes, thing, but I still hope that if I’m attacked by a bad guy, that he uses a shoe.
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posted on
02/05/2013 3:57:24 PM PST
by
ansel12
(Romney is a longtime supporter of homosexualizing the Boy Scouts (and the military).)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
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posted on
02/05/2013 5:27:37 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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