UPDATE - More Details:
http://www.wtop.com/index.php?nid=105&sid=517423
"Grenade Found Near Site Where Bush Spoke"
Updated: Wednesday, May. 11, 2005 - 4:37 AM
By MARA D. BELLABY
Associated Press Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Georgia's security chief said Wednesday that an inactive grenade was found near the site where President Bush made a speech in Tbilisi.
Gela Bezhuashvili, secretary of the National Security Council, said the Soviet-era grenade was found 100 feet from the tribune where Bush spoke on Tuesday.
U.S. Secret Service spokesman Jonathan Cherry said Tuesday that his agency had been informed that a device, possibly a hand grenade, had been thrown near the stage during Bush's speech, hit someone in the crowd and fallen to the ground.
Bezhuashvili said, however, that it was not thrown but "found.""
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"Another U.N. travesty"
Houston Chronicle ^ | May 11, 2005 | Editorial
Posted on 05/11/2005 1:58:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "As if the United Nations' reputation had not suffered enough from self-inflicted wounds, its Human Rights Commission has rubbed in more salt. It has re-elected Zimbabwe, one of the world's most notorious human rights violators, as a member."
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North Korea says it has completed removing nuclear fuel rods from reactor
Associated Press | May 11, 2005
Posted on 05/11/2005 2:42:43 AM PDT by HAL9000
North Korea said Wednesday it had completed removing spent nuclear fuel rods from a reactor at its main nuclear complex.
A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said they had "successfully completed" removing 8,000 fuel rods from the reactor at Yongbyon, in a statement carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
Removing the rods would allow the North to reprocess them to extract weapons-grade plutonium. But the North didn't say Wednesday it would take such a step.
A lot of softness in the reporting of this incident today. Georgian security is probably in CYA mode to have allowed even a fake device to get so close. Even a fake could have caused extreme panic and disruption - very likely what someone wanted - to provide cover for the real attack. It will probably be several days before the full story comes out.