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The man charged with throwing a grenade at President Bush during a speech earlier this year has sewn his mouth shut. The suspect had a court appearance in the former Russian republic of Georgia and communicated that he stitched his mouth closed in a gesture of solidarity with prison inmates who have gone on a hunger strike. The man is accused of throwing a grenade towards President Bush, and the president of Georgia while they were addressing a rally in Tbilisi back in May. Both leaders were behind bullet proof glass, and the grenade did not explode.

Georgia’s interior minister said a man who admitted throwing a live grenade toward US President George Bush during a rally in the ex-Soviet nation was acting alone and had no links to any foreign special services. Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili said Vladimir Arutyunian, who was indicted in September by a US grand jury on charges of trying to assassinate the president, will face trial in Georgia soon. “Arutyunian was a terrorist acting alone,” Merabishvili told the 24 Hours newspaper. Arutyunian faces terrorism and murder charges in Georgia stemming from the May 10 incident in Tbilisi and the killing of...

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...