Bush request for clemency refuted

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2002

President Bush did not ask Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo to consider clemency for an imprisoned American convicted of aiding a terrorist group, a White House spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Spokesperson Ari Fleischer acknowledged Bush asked about Lori Berenson but refuted an Associated Press report regarding clemency for her 20-year sentence. Berenson, a former Massachusetts Institute of Technology student, was convicted of aiding the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement in a failed plot to take over Peru's Congress.

The movement is named for an Indian leader who was executed for arising against the Spanish in the 1700s.

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