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...Baghdadia network correspondent fastballed his size 10s at Bush during Bush's joint press conference with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad on Dec. 14, his actions have been the talk of the town. Banners were hung in his honor in many parts of the capital. And in Saddam Hussein's former stronghold of Tikrit, a statue of a large shoe was erected - but then quickly removed, on orders from the Iraqi parliament. Support for al-Zaidi elsewhere in the Arab world was even more effusive, his seemingly spontaneous act resonating across a region deeply embittered...
...here from 140,000 to 128,000 by September. It also follows Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's attempt to cobble together a semblance of pan-Iraqi political solidarity. He has made an overture of reconciliation to low-level former members of the Baath Party, which ruled Iraq under Saddam Hussein. It was explicitly not offered to Ezzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Saddam's former Vice President, who remains in hiding, nor to al-Douri's supporters. In any case, none of the Saddam loyalists has indicated they would accept al-Maliki's offer anyway. "The Baath...
...stability, and had stood by while supporters called his opponent limp-wristed. Always prone to outlandish statements, Bunning himself made news when he said his opponent Daniel Mongiardo, then a state senator and now a lieutenant governor expected to run for the seat in 2010, looked like "one of Saddam Hussein's sons." In 2006, TIME named Bunning one of America's worst senators. (See America's best and worst senators...
...while others can go for as little as $2,000. "The buying and selling of girls in Iraq, it's like the trade in cattle," Hinda says. "I've seen mothers haggle with agents over the price of their daughters." (See pictures of Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein...
Nobody knows exactly how many Iraqi women and children have been sold into sexual slavery since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003. There is no official number because of the shadowy nature of the business. Baghdad-based activists like Hinda and others estimate it to be in the tens of thousands. Still, it remains a hidden crime, one that the 2008 U.S. State Department's Trafficking in Persons report says the Iraqi government is not combating. Baghdad, the report says, "offers no protection services to victims of trafficking, reported no efforts to prevent trafficking in persons...