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[#11 in a a series from livingstonemusic.net]

COLONEL Gaddafi insults Tony Blair by pointing the sole of a shoe towards him, throughout their meeting in Libya in March, 2004.
Here, Gaddafi was offering the worst of all insults. In the Arab world, shoes are considered unclean - signifying the lowliest and dirtiest part of the body.
Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based Al-quds newspaper, said: "I'm completely shocked. The only thing worse would be a physical attack."
Ibrahim Nawar, head of Arab Press Freedom Watch, said: "It was a deliberate act. He wanted to make Tony Blair look very, very small. You never show your shoe to anyone you remotely respect.