Toxins Discovered in Bush Grenade Suspect’s Cellar
The UK’s The Guardian newspaper reports that Georgian police and the American FBI have discovered “dangerous substances” in the cellar of Vladimir Arutyunyan, a Georgian citizen of Armenian descent arrested last week after a shootout that claimed the life of one senior Georgian policeman. He has been charged in connection with the 10 May attempted grenade attack on a rally addressed by US President George Bush and his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi’s Liberty Square.
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.[…]
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.
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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.
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