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A copper-coated statue of a giant shoe was unveiled in the Iraqi city of Tikrit Tuesday in honor of Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at George Bush last month on international television. The statue's creator, Baghdad-based artist Laith al-Amari, had some fitting helpers when molding its plexiglass body--local orphans, many of whose parents had been killed as a direct or indirect result of U.S. intervention in that region of Iraq. Al-Zaidi's famous words to Bush, "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq," have made him something of a folk hero in the region, and the community of Tikrit has rallied around the statue, which al-Amari says "is a source of pride for all Iraqis... it's not a political work."