He said he had nothing to do with the plane, and when the incident was brought up during the election campaign he dismissed it as "an anecdote".
But he dismissed speculation that it was connected to the recent visit to North Korea by the head of Google, Eric Schmidt.
Mbarushimana left Rwanda in the aftermath of the war and worked for the United Nations until he was dismissed in 2001 when it was revealed that he was the subject of an investigation by the United Nations' own criminal tribunal for Rwanda.
Judge Mark Plawecki said he dismissed the case not because it was an attack on Muslims, but because it could be an attack on football and sports in general.
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The minister said he was not troubled, and dismissed it as "not a big deal".
He dismissed warnings from General Shinseki that it would take hundreds of thousands of troops to win the peace.
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Even if one takes at face value his decorated conduct in combat - and, according to the Washington Post, doubts raised lately by a number of fellow Swift Boat veterans about his claimed heroism and the medals he received for it cannot be dismissed - the candidate has assiduously downplayed his post-Vietnam conduct, including two decades in the U.S. Senate.
George Bush dismissed the request even before he heard it, arguing that to comply would compromise the ongoing investigation.
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For six years, Mr Mathern has attempted to correct the constitution, although he says he was always defeated by colleagues who dismissed it as a waste of time.
"I was the one who, when the idea was first suggested to me by Nelson Piquet Jr, should have dismissed it immediately, " he wrote in a letter of mitigation.
Harris originally filed a motion to quash the DA's subpoena himself, but Judge Sciarrino dismissed it in April because he said Harris didn't own the information being requested -- Twitter did.
Sonnenfeld says he thinks the board did the right thing when it dismissed Hurd, and that Whitman can make a strong chief.
Once again Sehwag was guilty of a loose waft outside off stump and it was the 10th time he has been dismissed for 10 or under during 2006.
Mr Chavez has dismissed these concerns, while making it clear that he is determined to deepen his "socialist revolution".
He was CEO of Fannie Mae until the government dismissed him after it took over as conservator in September 2008.
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Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who met briefly with President Obama at the White House just before he left for the Middle East, dismissed criticisms of the speech, explaining that it was written with an Arab audience in mind.
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At the beginning of 2000, the head of Germany's Roman Catholic bishops raised the possibility that the Pope might step down because of ill health, but this was dismissed as it would have meant him not leading jubilee celebrations which he considered an important milestone.
He's no longer being dismissed as the poor guy who jumped on board when it was too late to stop the train wreck.
Makeke, the spokeswoman for the national prosecution office, had said before Botha was dismissed from the Pistorius case that he should be taken off, but added that it was up to the police force to make that decision.
However, he did say that it was necessary to take certain measures to prevent the data sets being dismissed as inconsistent because they were collected by non-professional scientists.
It was initially thought that Halsey had dismissed Terry for a professional foul on Jo, but he later clarified that the offence was "serious foul play".
Tortorella dismissed the significance of that statistic Tuesday after practice, but it marked a striking break from how he has divvied out playing time in previous postseasons.
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