So, I've figured that I'm sick of reading the same old, so this'll be something "new" to everyone's eyes being that everyone is stuck on trashing other people on this Godforesaken thing. So let's take an ACTUALLY interesting thing to read, granted it's a little late, but who cares:
Colombian official: Rebels planned to kill Bush
Saturday, November 27, 2004 Posted: 5:00 PM EST (2200 GMT)
(CNN) -- U.S. President George W. Bush was targeted for assassination by Marxist rebels this week when he visited the city of Cartagena, a Colombian official said Saturday.
"We found out through informers and various sources that groups within the [Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia] had been instructed from its leadership to make an assassination attempt on President Bush," Colombian Defense Secretary Jorge Alberto Uribe told Caracol TV, a Bogota-based satellite network.
Uribe said no evidence of the alleged plot by the group -- Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia or FARC -- has been recovered.
The U.S. Secret Service declined to comment on the alleged plot.
"The Secret Service does not comment or release information regarding our protective intelligence and protective methods," said spokesman Jonathan Cherry. "Secret Service does not discuss any alleged threats to our protectees."
Security was heavy during Bush's visit, and no incidents occurred.
"We have full confidence in the fine work of the Secret Service and their work with security officials on the ground," in Colombia and elsewhere, White House spokesman Jim Morrell said.
FARC has frequently been accused of targeting visiting international leaders for assassination.
"The administration of George W. Bush is everything that Marxist rebels hate in a U.S. government," journalist Toby Muse in Bogota, Colombia, told CNN.
"The plots against the president's life don't seem to have advanced very far," Muse said.
The president stopped briefly in Colombia on November 22 on his way back to Washington after attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Santiago, Chile. (Full story)
Established in 1964 as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party, FARC is Colombia's oldest, largest, most capable and best-equipped Marxist rebel group, according to the U.S. Department of State. The group, which has about 13,500 members, conducts bombings, murders, kidnappings and hijackings, the State Department said.
The State Department has classified FARC as a terrorist group.
Colombia has seen decades of civil warfare, involving government troops, leftist rebels and right-wing paramilitary groups.
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) -- The trial has opened of a man accused of trying to assassinate U.S. President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in May.
Vladimir Arutyunian is also accused of killing a policeman in a shootout before his arrest in July. He faces life in prison if convicted in Tbilisi city court.
The two presidents were addressing a rally of thousands in Tbilisi from behind a bulletproof barrier when a grenade, wrapped in a cloth, landed about 100 feet (30 meters) away. It did not explode; investigators said it apparently malfunctioned. No one was hurt.
Arutyunian acknowledged that he threw the grenade in the direction of the tribune and said that he would try again to kill Bush if he had the chance.
He has refused to testify before the court and demanded the presence of rights monitors.
"The verdict is preordained," he said Monday. "I demand that the international organization Human Rights Watch be present."
Arutyunian, 27, has been unemployed save for odd jobs since leaving school early. He lived with his mother Angela, who sells plastic bags at a Tbilisi market.
Investigators say they found explosives, toxic compounds and detective literature including Day of the Jackal, a book about an assassination attempt against French President Charles de Gaulle, in the basement of Arutyunian's residence.
Arutyunian also had a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a Russian military uniform, though there is no record of his serving either in the Georgian or Russian military.
Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili told journalists that Arutyunian "acted as an individual terrorist. He was not tied with the special services of any other country."
By the way: MY BIRFDAY'S IN 10 DAYS! yaya!.
My hair smells good. and i have a loverly boyfriend.
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