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January 30, 2009
Posted: 1527 GMT
Well, that didn't last long. According to CNN producer Mohammed Tawfeeq, an official with Salahedeen city Council told CNN the shoe sculpture was removed from the courtyard of the Tikrit orphanage. The official said the removal of the giant shoe followed a request from the central government. Iraqi police have reportedly visited the site to make sure the shoe, a bronze replica of the footwear hurled at forrmer President george W. Bush last month by an angry journalist, was indeed gone. Where is the shoe now? Posted by: CNN Anchor, Hala Gorani
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