The two assassination attempts on the life of President George W. Bush

October 27, 2008

Dear friends,

It is interesting to examine dramatic historical events in the SAMVA USA chart Perpetual Union.

Two related such events are two assassination attempts that have been made on the life of President George W. Bush.

First attempt.

On February 7, 2001, while President George W. Bush was occupied in the White House Residence, Washington, DC, Robert Pickett, standing outside the perimeter fence, discharged a number of shots from a weapon in the direction of the White House. Following a standoff of about ten minutes, the incident ended when a Secret Service officer shot Pickett, resulting in an injury which required hospital surgery. Pickett was found to have a history of emotional problems and employment grievances. Lacking conclusive evidence that Mr. Bush was a personal target (although the accused had indeed written to the President on the subject of his grievances), a court in July 2001 sentenced Pickett to three years in jail in connection with the incident.

Second attempt

On May 10, 2005, while President Bush was giving a speech in the Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Georgia, Vladimir Arutyunian threw a live Soviet-made RGD-5 hand grenade towards the podium where he was standing and where Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and their two wives and officials were seated. The grenade was live and had its pin pulled, but did not explode because a red tartan handkerchief wrapped tightly around the grenade kept the firing pin from deploying quickly enough. Arutyunian was arrested in July 2005, and killed an Interior Ministry agent while resisting arrest. He was convicted in January 2006, and was given a life sentence.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts

I have attached the respective transit charts, if list members are interested to examine them with respect to either event. In both cases, there is some danger seen in the transit placements but no crisis occurred at the national level.

Best wishes,

Thor