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    ARMENIAN OPPOSITION MP PLANNED ACT OF TERROR, SAYS PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE

    Mediamax news agency
    12 Apr 04

    YEREVAN

    The Armenian Prosecutor-General's Office today reported that "one of
    the opposition deputies in the National Assembly and his supporters"
    had organized an act of terrorism at the beginning of April.

    Moscow residents Gevorg Mesropyan and Artur Mangasarov, who have
    previous convictions, were arrested for illegally carrying weapons
    during the rally organized by the Justice bloc and National Unity
    Party on 9 April, the press service of the Prosecutor-General's Office
    told Mediamax today.

    "For a large sum of money a criminal group recruited the two
    terrorists, who were to have opened fire amongst the rally-goers at
    1600 on 9 April in order to create panic and carry out a terrorist
    act," the statement from the Armenian Prosecutor-General's Office
    says.

    "Gevorg Mesropyan and Artur Mangasarov have been arrested and have
    confessed," the press service of the Prosecutor-General's Office told
    Mediamax today.
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