Wow thank you for posting that picture I got your ping but I had not had a chance to go over to that thread yet.
That rug needs to be hanging very prominantly in President Bush's library someday. It is incredible, not just the amount of work that is involved, but the very danger the man was in while making it. As a Muslim, being caught with all those Christian symbols he could have been killed in a most vicious way. But this was important to him.