Shoes gains demand
A Turkish shoe firm says it had to take on 100 extra staff to cope with the surge in orders after an Iraqi threw shoes at the US President George W Bush.
Istanbul-based Baydan shoes claims it made the shoes and says it now has tens of thousands of orders from around the world - including from the US and Iraq. The shoe was called Model 271 but has been renamed Bush Shoe, the firm said.
However, the brother of Shoe throwing journalist says that the show were Iraqi-made. It is not very difficult to verify from where exactly the shoes were manufactured. But after the incident, the shoes were completely destroyed. According to the shop owner, a US Firm has added 18,000 pairs and a further 15,000 pairs are destined for Iraq and a British distributor has asked to be the Firm’s European sales representative.
Muntadar-Al-Zaidi, the journalist has been hailed a hero by some people for throwing his shoes at President Bush during the Baghdad news conference on 14th December. This action is seen as a grave insult in the Arab World.
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