Man Describes Attack Targeting Bush, Leader
A man arrested last week who admitted throwing a grenade at President Bush during a rally in Georgia said he aimed to spray shrapnel over the bulletproof glass protecting the U.S. leader.
Bush and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili were at a rally in Tbilisi in May when the grenade landed 100 feet away. It did not explode; investigators said it malfunctioned.
“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,” Vladimir Arutyunian said in a video clip provided by the Interior Ministry and broadcast by Georgia’s Rustavi-2 television.
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