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THE MAN WHO WANTED TO KILL GEORGE W. BUSH WAS `SOLE TERRORIST´

TBILISI, NOVEMBER 1, ARMENPRESS: An ethnic Armenian citizen of Georgia charged with attempting to assassinate US president George W. Bush on May 10 in Tbilisi was ‘a sole terrorist’, Georgian interior minister Vano Merabishvili said.

In an interview with the newspaper 24 Saati published on Tuesday Merabishvili said Georgian investigators did not find that ‘Vladimir Harutunian was linked with security services of any country.’ Merabishvili had said in September that Harutunian “will be convicted in Georgia according to laws of this country”.

“The US has not raised and is not raising the question of Harutunian’s extradition from Georgia to America,” Merabishvili said, but added that US’ respective services have brought criminal charges against Harutunian. “His trial will also take place in the US, but it will be an in absentia trial”,” he said, adding that Harutunian would be sentenced according to US laws too. Harutunian was detained in Tbilisi on July 20. Three days later, a city court ruled his three-month arrest on charges of illegal arms possession and deliberate murder of a Georgian police officer.

On July 26, he was charged with an attempt of a terrorist act against the US and Georgian presidents made on May 10. Harutunian publicly admitted in late July that he threw a grenade towards US president George W. Bush when he was addressing a crowd in Tbilisi on May 10. The court extended Hrutunian’s arrest for three months on October 20.

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