Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- [As bombs explode in Venice and Mexico City...] Ukraine U.S. Embassy Protester Held The Associated Press Thursday, Aug. 9, 2001; 12:24 p.m. EDT KIEV, Ukraine �� Police detained a Ukrainian man who threatened to blow up an F-1 grenade Thursday at the entrance to the U.S. Embassy, police officials said. Embassy guards called police after Vasyl Lisovyi, 53, demanded to talk with law enforcement officials and journalists, waving the grenade and claiming he was being mistreated by local authorities in his home region of Dnipropetrovsk in eastern Ukraine. Lisovyi said he had suffered injustice in failed property deals, said Oleksandr Naumov, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry's branch in Kiev. "He (Lisovyi) was overexcited and it was not possible to get a clear explanation from him," the spokesman said. Lisovyi's wife and a 25-year-old son supported the protest at the scene. After talks with police, security officials and prosecutors, the Lisovyi family agreed to hand over the explosive and went to the General Prosecutor's Office. Lisovyi's action was apparently aimed at drawing attention to himself, not at attacking the embassy, Naumov said. Officials were studying the grenade and investigating the incident. � __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [email protected] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
