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Originally Posted by MickeyG
thats funny other reports say it was "inactive"
TBILISI, Georgia - Georgia?s security chief said Wednesday that an inactive grenade was found near the site where President Bush made a speech in Tbilisi.
Bezhuashvili said the grenade was found in ?inactive mode.? He described it as an ?engineering grenade? ? one that is used for demolition or to simulate the effect of an artillery shell. Such grenades? blast-effect can be fatal at close range, but unlike offensive grenades, they are not designed to spread shrapnel.
?I am not an expert, but it was not possible to detonate it there,? Bezhuashvili said.
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe...gia/index.html
"A hand grenade was tossed in the general direction of the main stage and landed within 100 feet of the podium," the U.S. Embassy statement said.
"From initial qualified inspection, this hand grenade appears to be a live device that simply failed to function due to a light strike on the blasting cap induced by a slow deployment of the spoon activation device," the statement said.