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Giant leap of faith for failed Bush assassin
Published: 12 February, 2010, 13:50
Edited: 15 February, 2010, 11:01
US President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili (R) wave to the crowd 10 May, 2005, at Freedom Square in the Georgian capital Tbilisi (AFP Photo)
TAGS: Crime, Georgia, Terrorism, USA
A man convicted of an attempt to kill George W. Bush has converted to Islam in a Georgian prison.
Tbilisi resident Vladimir Arutyunian, who is an ethnic Armenian, has been serving a life sentence in Georgia since 2006, after being convicted of an attempt to assassinate Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and former US President George W. Bush, as well as the murder of a policeman.
His lawyer, Gela Nikolaishvili, said that Arutyunian is currently in a normal healthy condition. "While in prison, he has converted to Islam, grown a beard and learnt the Arabic language," Nikolaishvili said.
Arutyunian converted to Islam from the Armenian Apostolic Church. This is his second, and this time successful, attempt at conversion.
Back in May 10, 2005, Arutyunian threw a hand grenade wrapped in a handkerchief toward the podium from which Bush was speaking during a rally that brought together more than 10,000 people on Liberty Square in Georgia's capital. Saakashvili and others were seated behind the American leader. The grenade never detonated.
Arutyunian escaped, but was arrested two months later, killing one of the policemen arresting him in the process. He was convicted in January 2006.
According to his lawyer, Arutyunian applied to the European Court of Human Rights to enable him to appeal his sentence with a Georgian court.
"The essence of Arutyunian's request is that he wishes to appeal for a revision of the case, but under Georgian law, he had the right to do so only within six months of his sentence being passed. This was not done for several reasons. These included Arutyunian's health condition and the fact that he had no independent lawyer at the time," Nikolaishvili said.
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If the so called uniformed soldiers like the NATO particularity the Americans kill innocent people is not called terrorism. What I mean is while the Americans or west or NATO was fighting against the communism, the west was along side with the Muslim countries to fight against the USSR red army in Afghanistan actively. When the USSR collapsed the Americans turned their all war machinery against Islam and call it Terrorist. If this is terrorism why they ware supporting the terrorism in the 80s in Afghanistan against the red army? If Islam that bad why the US and Europe citizens which considered well-educated who very well can differentiate bad and good convert to Islam. Islam has been, is and will for ever the "Religion of Peace". It's the western powerful media change black to white and vice-versa. You like or not, NATO in Afghanistan is known as "North Atlantic Terrorist Organization". That because to their evils act and behavior in that poor country. The US created Taliban in aim to use them for their own strategic interest and goals but the Taliban Movement changed their course by ignoring to follow and implement the US strategy - as a result the US call them Terrorists. Same, as the US created Osama to fight against the red army in Afghanistan. Who was behind the World Trade Center conspiracy is still a huge question-mark. World call Osama a terrorist but not George W. Hitler (Bush) who lied and orchestrated to attack Afghanistan and Iraq killed millions of innocent Muslims. What a great judgment of the world. The point is, before throwing the hand grenade he was not a Muslim!! he converted after what he has done.
[quote]I have yet to hear of an account where a Christian has hollered "God is Great" before he committed a crime.[/quote] Some say Christians are like wolves, they kill silently but kill all the same. There is little difference between Christian and Muslim terrorists as a whole. Also the delivery method of aggression tends to be different. You can't hear what a B1-B Lancer pilot is saying as he drops 10 tons of bombs on a city filled with Muslim families, men women and children. I'm sure a lot of them get a rise out of it though.
Scrat335 Thank you for your comment. I am not particularly religious. I do believe all moral systems are capable of evil.