Apr 11, 2003

Decoding Iraq's symbols of celebration


All the things everyone saw on the TV or on the news stations people beating Statue with their shoes and all the other things that you didn't understand, or maybe laughed of what they were doing to celebrate the Saddams fall, well you can understand that now by going to a BBC article on all of these symbols.

There was rich symbolism in the way Iraqis celebrated the fall of Baghdad - some hurled shoes while others brandished small clay discs. What do these actions and symbols represent? continue