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Angelina Jolie`s Bodyguards Arrested in India

Since Angelina Jolie arrived to India for the production of the Film "A Mighty Heart", she and her bodyguards seem to be nothing but trouble. The movie is based on the memoirs of Mariane Pearl the widow of American journalist Daniel Pearl, who was abducted and murdered by Islamic militants, in 2002, while researching a story for the Wall Street Journal. It seems like Jolie`s bodyguards are spending their time raising hell.

In one incident, an Associated Press photographer claims to have been hit and threatened at gunpoint by one of Jolie`s bodyguards. Another bodyguard was caught on camera grabbing a British photographer by his neck and verbally abusing him. The latest of this string of pointless violence ended in the arrest of three British bodyguards working for Angelina Jolie after they allegedly beating up parents and students at the Anjuman-e-Islam school in Mumbai where Jolie was filming scenes for the movie, police said.

The violence occurred Thursday afternoon when the school gates were opened to let parents fetch their children. Prosecutor N. C. Tambe told the court that the three bodyguards verbally abused people, calling them "bloody Indians," and "bloody Muslims. Witness added that they threatened, pushed and shoved some of the parents. Mahesh Jethmalani, who is representing the British bodyguards, said:" They have come to India to shoot a film," and denied claims they were abusive. Dallington TV, the British production company that organized the shoot said that the blamed lay on photographers and television cameramen trying to take pictures of Jolie. The three were freed on Friday on $545-bail and asked they stay in the country for one week time. The three identified by police as Thomas McAdam, 47, Robert Dunn, 35, and Michael Brett, 50 can be jailed for up to three years if convicted.