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    Newsday, NY
    April 15 2005

    Armenian man brought to the United States to face charges

    15, 2005, 6:43 PM EDT


    NEW YORK _ A man who allegedly photographed rocket-propelled grenade
    launchers and other weapons in a plot to smuggle the deadly machinery
    into the United States has been brought from Armenia to the United
    States for trial.

    Herbert Haddad, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney David Kelley, said
    Armen Barseghyan would appear in U.S. District Court in Manhattan in
    the next week to face charges contained in indictments charging 20
    defendants.

    It was not immediately clear who would represent Barseghyan in court.


    Barseghyan was accused in court papers of photographing
    rocket-propelled grenade launchers, shoulder-to-air missiles and
    other Russian weapons that were supposed to be smuggled into the
    United States.

    The plot was broken up by an FBI informant who posed as an arms buyer
    with ties to terrorists, prosecutors said as they announced charges
    in the case last month.

    In the case, U.S. investigators went to South Africa, Armenia and the
    Georgian Republic, put wiretaps on seven phones and intercepted more
    than 15,000 calls.

    An informant, an explosives expert, contacted the FBI after he was
    approached by a man who said he had access to weapons from the former
    Soviet Union and believed the informant could find a willing buyer,
    federal prosecutors said.
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