Suspect Admits Throwing Grenade

On July 21 the Interior Ministry issued video footage of a short interview with Vladimer Arutunian in which the latter admits that he tossed a hand-grenade while U.S. President Bush was addressing thousands of Georgians on Freedom Square on May 10.

The footage, which was broadcasted by the Georgian television stations, shows Arutunian, who was injured in a shootout with the police on July 20, in his hospital room. When answering the question asked by spokesman of the Interior Ministry Guram Donadze: ?Did you toss a hand-grenade?? Arutunian replays: ?Yes.?

When asked why he did it, the suspect starts answering: ?because Bush?? and then the footage is bleeped out, apparently to censor swearing. 

Arutunian, 27, was captured late on July 20 after a shootout with the police, which resulted in the death of one security official.

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