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TBILISI, Georgia - FBI agents hauled away boxes Monday from the home of a man who has confessed to throwing a grenade at President Bush at a rally in Georgia's capital in May. Investigators have erected a tent outside Vladimir Arutyunian's home, on the outskirts of Tbilisi, and appeared to be using special equipment to examine the evidence, according to footage shown by Georgian Rustavi-2 television. No one was harmed in the incident, and Arutyunian has been charged with killing a police officer in a shootout during his arrest last week. He was shown on TV admitting to throwing the...

A grenade hurled in a crowd during last week's speech by President Bush in the Georgian capital was capable of exploding and was considered a threat against the president, the FBI said Wednesday. In Washington, the White House spokesman said Secret Service agents in Georgia were examining whether security changes were needed.... The FBI statement contradicted initial reports by Georgian officials that the Soviet-era grenade was found on the ground, was inactive and posed no danger to Bush. ... "The Secret Service is looking into all those issues,"...

Monday July 14, 11:52 PM US soldier killed, blasts hits coalition HQ as Iraqi council meets BAGHDAD (AFP) - Another US soldier was killed in Iraq and a grenade targetted the US-led coalition's HQ hours after the new Governing Council took office in the hope of calming the violent situation in the country. The British government meanwhile felt a new backlash in the row over Saddam Hussein's elusive weapons of mass destruction, with a poll indicating two-thirds of voters felt Prime Minister Tony Blair had misled them. The grenade exploded outside the headquarters of the coalition forces in the centre...

Fifteen wounded in Indian Kashmir grenade attack SRINAGAR, India, May 3 (Reuters) - At least 15 people were wounded in Indian Kashmir on Saturday when a grenade thrown by suspected Muslim rebels at a police patrol exploded on a road near a crowded marketplace, officials said. "The grenade missed the target and exploded on the road injuring 15 civilians, four of them seriously," a police official told Reuters. They attack took place in Anantnag town south of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir state. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. India accuses Pakistan of arming...

Military officials are investigating a Marine who says he shot an Iraqi soldier twice in the back of the head following a grenade attack on his comrades.The Marine Forces Reserve announced the preliminary inquiry of Gunnery Sgt. Gus Covarrubias on Friday, the day the Las Vegas Review-Journal ran a story in which he described the killing.Covarrubias, 38, of Las Vegas, said that during an intense battle in Baghdad on April 8, he pursued a member of the Iraqi Republican Guard who had fired a rocket-propelled grenade at his unit. Covarrubias said he received a concussion in the attack and several...

Doctor killed in grenade attack A doctor has been killed and 31 people injured in three separate grenade attacks in Indian-held Kashmir. The attacks have been blamed on Islamic militants. Dr Abdul Salam was killed and civilians wounded when rebels threw a grenade at a police post in Qazigund. Police said the grenade missed the intended target and landed on a road before exploding. In a second attack, suspected rebels threw a hand grenade at paramilitary forces at a bus station, but it also missed and injured five civilians in Shopiyan. Elsewhere, four civilians and a policeman were wounded in...

Curfew reimposed after grenade attack kills civilian A Tamil civilian was killed and seven others were injured in a grenade attack on Friday afternoon near Kattaiparichchan bridge which separates army controlled and Liberation Tigers controlled area in Muttur east, police sources said. The curfew lifted Friday has been reimposed Friday afternoon immediately after the grenade attack. The Defence Minister Mr.Tilak Marapone was presiding a conference regarding the disturbances in Muttur town and its suburbs when attack took place 100 yards away from the Kattaiparichchan army camp where the conference was being held. This incident took place when sections of Muslims...

<p>BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The former stepfather of the U.S. soldier accused of attacking his own unit in Kuwait was arrested Thursday on a federal weapons charge.</p> <p>Officials said the arrest was unrelated to the case of Sgt. Asan Akbar, accused of lobbing hand grenades into a brigade command center of the 101st Airborne Division on Sunday. The attack killed two officers and injured 14 other soldiers.</p>

CAMP PENNSYLVANIA, Kuwait (Army News Service, March 24, 2003) - The dim dust of the desert settled lightly upon a pair of combat boots this morning. An inverted black rifle stood prone, topped by a camouflage helmet embossed with the black club of the Bastogne Brigade. A silver set of identification tags hung motionless from the rifle, capturing a glimmer of the morning sun. Upon those tags were etched a name that lay heavy upon the morning haze: Capt. Christopher Seifert, 28 years old, a captain, assistant S2, 1st Brigade headquarters, 101st Airborne Division. The 101st had lost one of...

<p>CAMP PENNSYLVANIA, Kuwait (CNN) -- A U.S. soldier has been detained and is being questioned in connection with a grenade and small arms attack early Sunday at an Army camp in northern Kuwait, the U.S. Central Command said.</p> <p>The attack at Camp Pennsylvania, where soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division are stationed, wounded 13 people -- six of them seriously -- U.S. military officials said. Central Command said the suspect is assigned to the division.</p>