Suspect: Grenade Shrapnel Meant For Bush

FoxNews ^ | July 23, 2005 | Associated Press

[kddid]

TBILISI, Georgia — A man who confessed to throwing a live grenade toward President Bush during a rally in Georgia intended its shrapnel to hit the area where the president and others were standing, the suspect said video footage broadcast Saturday.

"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, you understand?" Vladimir Arutyunian said.

Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili (search) were on a podium protected with bulletproof glass at a massive rally in Tbilisi in May when the grenade was thrown and landed about 100 feet away. It did not explode and investigators later said its activation device apparently had malfunctioned.

[U S Army EOD]

I wonder if he remembered to pull the pin?

[patriciamary]

This man should be sentenced to death.

[bitt]

doesn't say if this fellow is Muslim. I get the feeling he is not...he is not Chechyen or as the FR spell check would like to say it, 'Chignon'

[combat_boots]

He's a pony tail?

[bitt]

giggle - harrumph -

spell check would like to call him a pony tail...I, sir, will not.

[GSlob]

He has an Armenian surname - Arutyunian (typical "-ian" ending is a clue)