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Hand grenade thrown at Pres Bush in Georgia
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=77045 ^ | 05/10/2005 | NBC NEWS

Posted on 05/10/2005 3:33:47 PM PDT by pitinkie

Thrown within 100 feet of Bush on stage. Pin was pulled. Georgian securiy got it. Thats all from NBC news.


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To: tortoise

Yeah, normally, but this was a packed crowd. If it landed in the middle of a large crowd, they would have absorbed the blast and shrapnel.


381 posted on 05/10/2005 6:27:33 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The rats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Howlin

See? If Putin had sealed his borders, none of this would have happened!


382 posted on 05/10/2005 6:30:01 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Howlin

(I am still working on the Terri Schiavo angle. Bear with me)


383 posted on 05/10/2005 6:30:28 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: RushCrush

Season 3 Comes out on DVD on May 17th


384 posted on 05/10/2005 6:34:57 PM PDT by cmsgop ( We're in this together,Schooner Tuna, The Tuna With Heart !!)
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To: Bald Eagle777; All

The latest:

Not confirmed by our SS yet - but the Georgian intel said somebody threw a grenade - which was meant to go on the stage - but it hit a person and fell to the ground. A policeman picked it up and stopped it from going off. They never told our SS until the plane was in the air on the way home.

But .. I've just realized that just about the time this grenade thing was going on - I was brushing my teeth and I stopped all of a sudden because I felt impressed to pray Isaiah 54:17 - "No weapon formed against you shall proper". I said it over several time over the President. I just thought it was because he was going to be flying a long distance today to get home.

I'm sure there were a whole bunch of us who were impressed to do the same thing.


385 posted on 05/10/2005 6:37:37 PM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
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To: af_vet_1981

I'd suspect Putin and company.

If Putin pulled it off and was able to blame a local for it he could turn the US opinion against the breakaways and at the same time have a good excuse to go after them himself.

Putin acts friendly but I don't trust him a lick.


386 posted on 05/10/2005 6:44:14 PM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: cmsgop
Us Old timers have made a mistake or three here.......

Speak for yourself!!!!! (check out the tagline...)

387 posted on 05/10/2005 6:47:06 PM PDT by b4its2late (I am nobody, nobody's perfect, therefore, I am perfect.)
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To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington

Perhaps a dud or perhaps just a paper weight ......

Alternately is it possible, if you are quick, to grab a live grenade thats been thrown and hold the handle down so it doesn't detonate ? Or is it once the pin is pulled and the handle released there's no turning back ?

I didn't get to take hand greande training in High School.


388 posted on 05/10/2005 6:48:12 PM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: festus

Been awhile but as I remember
The spoon flies off the booger as soon as you turn loose of it.
There aint no turning it off.

As for grabbing one, not me friend.
Would be too busy looking for a hole to get in.


389 posted on 05/10/2005 6:50:48 PM PDT by 76834
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To: cmsgop
BTW, DU is saying is they are sad the perp did not have more training.

The Secret Service needs to identify those who said that and question them. These are the next domestic Presidential assassins.

390 posted on 05/10/2005 7:10:42 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Not Elected Pope Since 4/19/2005.)
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To: Lazamataz

I agree......


391 posted on 05/10/2005 7:13:55 PM PDT by cmsgop ( We're in this together,Schooner Tuna, The Tuna With Heart !!)
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To: pitinkie

CNN and Fox reported it....still don't know if it was real...if it was is must've been a dud, thank God!


392 posted on 05/10/2005 7:17:19 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: Frank_Discussion
Oh. A southpaw.

with no control

393 posted on 05/10/2005 7:19:24 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: cmsgop
BTW, DU is saying is they are sad the perp did not have more training.

The DUmmies should be "skinnered alive" for such thoughts.

394 posted on 05/10/2005 7:33:01 PM PDT by rdl6989 (If it drives the left into fits, its a good thing.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
(fake turkey and all).

There's morons out there who still believe that BS? Wonders never cease.

You know, there's something about the "fake turkey" canard that just gives me the creeps! It is just so unhinged! Even if you came in late and had no data; (1) Why does it even matter if the turkey was fake? The soldiers all ate, didn't they? (2) Who has ever even seen a "fake turkey"? (3) Wouldn't it be much easier for the military to obtain a real one? There are lots of those! (4) Why fake it? What's the advantage?

Like I said, the whole concept is 100% unhinged. Whenever I see someone repeat that nonsense, I shudder to think what someone so insane is capable of.

395 posted on 05/10/2005 7:34:02 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: 76834
As for grabbing one, not me friend.

Would it be possible to have a kevlar shrapnel-containment bag one could throw over a grenade to minimize the shrapnel dispersion? How much actual blast does a normal grenade have and how much of the energy is transfered to the shrapnel?

396 posted on 05/10/2005 7:36:58 PM PDT by supercat (Sorry--this tag line is out of order.)
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To: supercat

I guess it is "possible" for the sun to come up in the west in the morning.

Why dont you try it and let us know how it works out??


397 posted on 05/10/2005 7:38:51 PM PDT by 76834
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To: pitinkie

If it was a wacked up home-grown liberal from the USA, I'm gonna get mean to any lib friends of mine.


398 posted on 05/10/2005 7:51:57 PM PDT by SolomoninSouthDakota (Daschle is gone.)
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To: 76834
Why dont you try it and let us know how it works out??

Well, I'd have to move somewhere I could legally have a grenade, and pay oodles of money for the grenade plus tax, plus find a source of kevlar, etc.

But maybe someone who knows the physics involved can clue me in on the expanded volume of the explosives in a typical grenade.

399 posted on 05/10/2005 8:26:06 PM PDT by supercat (Sorry--this tag line is out of order.)
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To: Pippin

Your tagline is very appropriate.

I see no one knows all the details yet. The Georgian People and Government were wonderful to our President so I have no problem with them.

I do have a problem with would be assassins and Leftist's that call for our President's assassination in this country. They speak of a civil war within the country now? Our President is harmed or his family in any way and they'll live to regret every second of the rest of their pathetic tortured soulless lives. And the assassin? He or she better not be looking forward to a cozy cell next to Saddam's. His fate is a luxury vacation compared to what would meet any assassin or conspirators against our president.

Thank God. Thank Jesus Christ our President and First Lady were not harmed. Nor was any innocent in the crowd.


400 posted on 05/10/2005 8:28:47 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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