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Armenia denies connection to man arrested for attempt at Pres Bush

Armenia denies connection to man arrested for attempt at Pres Bush
By Tigran Liloyan

ITAR-TASS News Agency
July 21, 2005 Thursday 8:54 AM Eastern Time

YEREVAN, July 21 — Vladimir Arutyunian, an ethnic Armenian arrested
in Georgia in connection with an attempt at U.S. President George
W. Bush’s life is a Georgian national and is not related to the
Republic of Armenia in any way, a spokesman for Armenian law
enforcement agencies told Itar-Tass on conditions of anonymity.

Arutyunian, 27, is suspected of throwing a combat grenade at a podium
from which President Bush addressed a rally of democracy fans in
Tbilisi May 10, 2005.

“Investigation of that incident at the meeting in Tbilisi is Georgia’s
internal matter and Armenian law and order agencies are not involved
in it in any way,” the spokesman said.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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