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Algorem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 06:41 AM
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Man recounts Bush grenade toss strategy
Published: Jul 23, 2005
Modified: Jul 23, 2005 9:15 PM

By MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - A man who admitted throwing a live grenade toward President Bush during a rally in Georgia said in a video broadcast Saturday he aimed to spray shrapnel over the bulletproof glass protecting the U.S. leader...

"I threw the grenade, not directly at where there was bulletproof glass, but toward the heads ... so that the shrapnel would fly behind the bulletproof glass," Vladimir Arutyunian said in the video broadcast by Georgia's Rustavi-2 television...

Investigators were searching for a motive. Suspicions that Arutyunian might be linked to Russian forces in Georgia followed reports that Russian military uniforms were found in his house after he was arrested...

The Interior Ministry said Friday that Arutyunian was believed to have been a member of the Agordzineba party, which supported the leader of a region largely outside central government control...

http://www.newsobserver.com/24hour/politics/story/2575025p-11007829c.html











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Eugene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 07:15 AM
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1. Was Bush simply in the wrong place at the wrong time?
The bomb thrower still won't say why he did it,
but it sounds pluasable that he was after
President Saakashvili. Bush just happened
to be there.
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 06:57 PM
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2. chimpy on the planet is the wrong place at the wrong time
I just can't stop the loathing that I feel for this slithering pustule. May he rot in hell after he has been shot on the wh lawn for treason.
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