[Lazamataz]

Wow! Well, luckily, the 100 feet or so the president was from the grenade is well out of wound-casualty radius. Kill-radius is about 15 feet, wound-radius is about 45 feet.

Nonetheless: Too close for comfort!

[Blood of Tyrants]

No doubt that the person who had it really wanted to get within the kill radius of the president.

[Raycpa]

The first one would clear the area and possibly make Bush an easier target. It would be an error to think the grenade was the sole plan of attack.

[CyberAnt]

Well .. "luck" has nothing to do with it.

Our President is protected by those of us who know how to pray over him for protection.

[Blogger]

Don't think luck had much to do with it. Thank the Lord he is safe.

[from occupied ga]

radius. Kill-radius is about 15 feet,

Except of course for the fuse assembly which can nail you at a lot greater distance

[Southack]

"Wow! Well, luckily, the 100 feet or so the president was from the grenade is well out of wound-casualty radius. Kill-radius is about 15 feet, wound-radius is about 45 feet. Nonetheless: Too close for comfort!"

Crowd stampede...

That the grenade didn't go off makes me wonder what sort of tech wizardry we've got in place. It's mighty tough to stop a chemical fuse, after all, so someone's being clever again.

[river rat]

"He identified it as a live hand grenade, whereas initial Georgian statements said it appeared to have been an "engineering grenade," a device that is not designed to spread shrapnel.

I could find NO description of the "grenade" as a "shrapnel" type..

It could have been any number of types of grenades in the Soviet arsenal...

Had it been some form of lethal gas, biological agents, white phosphous or ?????, perhaps 100 feet may have been within its effective range..

I doubt we'll ever learn...

Semper Fi

[jb6]

Thank God they missed. I guess one of those Islamics whose visas Georgia keeps stamping decided to stick around rather then to head to Chechnya.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Unless it was a nucular hand grenade.