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Eddie Mair | 10:37 UK time, Tuesday, 15 September 2009

The man who threw shoes at President Bush has been freed. More .

Hugh Sykes sends these words and photos:

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"His family are ready to welcome him home.


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"His nephews and nieces sing a shoe-thrower's song: "Bush, Bush, listen well, we said good-bye to you with a pair of shoes"."


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A Baghdad internet cafe where, of course:


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You can play shoe thrower games online. The manager, however, does not think the shoe thrower is a hero. "He's a journalist, he has his pen," he told me. Meanwhile, back at teh shoe thrower's flat:


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Sacrificial sheep, probably rather pleased by the delay."

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