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To: Lukasz
Armenians are Orthodox Christians not Muslims.

Not all of them. That guy has islamoloonie written all over his face.

16 posted on 01/11/2006 11:29:53 AM PST by BushMeister ("We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." --Ronald Reagan)
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Here's more on the perp (Wikipedia):

Vladimir Arutinian (his surname is also transliterated as Arutyunian) (b. 12 March 1978, Tbilisi, Georgia) is a man convicted of an assassination attempt against U.S. President George W. Bush during his visit in Georgia on May 10, 2005.

An ethnic Armenian, he was born and grew up in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is suspected of throwing a RGD-5 hand grenade at a podium where George W. Bush and Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili were addressing to a massive crowd at the Freedom Square in downtown Tbilisi on May 10, 2005. The live grenade landed less than 100 feet (31 meters) from the podium but did not explode.

Georgian officials had initially claimed the grenade was not set to explode, and U.S. officials initially said that Bush had been in no danger, but they later said the grenade was a threat to his life. On July 18, Georgia’s Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili issued photos of a suspect, whose identities by that time were unknown, and announced a reward of 150,000 Lari (USD$83,000) for information leading to the identification of that person.

The suspect, Vladimir Arutinian, age 27, was arrested in a shootout with police late on July 20. During the skirmish a high-ranked police officer was killed, and the suspect fled into the woods in the village of Vashlijvari on the outskirts of Tbilisi. Wounded in the leg, he was captured by the Special Forces about an hour later. He made an admission in the hospital, where he was being treated for gunshot wounds.

17 posted on 01/11/2006 11:34:53 AM PST by BushMeister ("We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." --Ronald Reagan)
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