Posted on 07/27/2005 11:13:24 PM PDT by Cougar66
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Georgian police working with the FBI discovered dangerous substances in the house of the suspect who admitted throwing a live grenade toward President Bush at a rally in Tbilisi in May, officials said Wednesday. Sergo Dzagnidze, chief of the criminal police department at the Interior Ministry, told The Associated Press that 5 gallons of sulfuric acid, several boxes of mercury thermometers, a centrifuge, a microscope and other devices and dangerous chemicals were found in the cellar.
The suspect, Vladimir Arutyunian, was detained last week after a police shootout.
He was charged Tuesday with terrorism over the grenade attack, in addition to earlier charges of killing a police officer in the shootout and illegal possession of weapons.
"The dangerous substances found in the cellar of Arutyunian show that he posed a risk and had a big potential for carrying out terrorist acts," General-Prosecutor Zurab Adeishvili said.
Both Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili were behind a bulletproof barrier addressing a rally of thousands in Tbilisi in May when the grenade landed about 100 feet away. It did not explode; investigators said it apparently malfunctioned. No one was harmed.
Arutyunian was shown on local television last week admitting throwing the grenade. The suspect said he hoped to kill Bush because he believed the U.S. leader was "interfering in Georgia's internal affairs," his lawyer said Tuesday.
Another unemployed chemical engineer??
oh gee, what a shock.... a bomb thrower might turn out to be a terrorist?? /sarcasm
What about the dangerous lack of substance in his brain?
Ah. A Bomb factory.
An Armenian, just FYI.
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