I am suprised it was just a shoe quite honestly.
Bush attacker ‘incensed by bullet-riddled Koran’ - Times Online.
In any story of terror theres a very important "why". And its never convenient to listen to the answer. For the shoe thrower (according to his brother) the why seems to have been:
- he was ‘incensed by bullet-riddled Koran’, that is a Koran that seemed to have been used for target practice by an American sniper.
- he was traumatised by the war. "The war changed Muntathar’s psyche as a result of the horrific scenes he saw, as well as the cruel tragedies ..."
- " .... the incident that made Muntathar cry most was the story of Abir, the daughter of Mahmoudiya.” In 2006 US soldiers raped and kiled a 14 year old girl, and shot her mother, father and little sister.
I do not jest when I say I am suprised it was only shoes. For Mohammed Atta (of 9/11 infamy) it seems to have been the Qana massacre in S Lebanon in 1996 that radicalised him. ( see my 2006 post Discontent during the Lebanon War, summer 2006 -- mentioned in the first part "I must add my voice" where I mention a little of the Qana and Atta story.) And Atta went off and hijacked a plane, and we know what happened then.
When will we learn?
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