Anyway the shoes of the Iraqi journalist was size 10, Bush should be glad it didn't hit him or else he would have been injured before going back home in the states. Now I know "W" is good on something, he could have been a good military guy, sadly he was a very ineffective President though.
A Turkish shoe firm says it has had to take on 100 extra staff to cope with a surge in orders after an Iraqi threw shoes at US President 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 Muntader al-Zaidi says he believes the shoes were Iraqi-made.
Durgham al-Zaidi criticised people he said were trying to exploit his brother's actions for commercial gain.
"The Syrians claim the shoes were made in Syria and the Turks say they made them. Some say he bought them in Egypt. But as far as I know, he bought them in Baghdad and they were made in Iraq," he told the AFP news agency.
It is difficult to verify exactly where the shoe is from as Mr Zaidi has not been seen in public since the incident eight days ago, and the judge in the case says the shoes were destroyed during security checks.
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But Oner Bogatekin, Baydan Shoes' export representative, said the staff recognised their handiwork from the news reports.
"We saw it on videos and also in newspapers. We have been producing this shoe for 10 years, so know it very well and we can recognise them anywhere," he told the BBC.
