Grenade aimed at Bush could have exploded

An FBI agent said today a grenade found in the crowd during last week’s speech by President George Bush in the Georgian capital Tbilisi was capable of exploding and had been thrown.

The statement by Brian Parmen contradicted initial reports by Georgian officials that the grenade either was not in condition to explode or that it was a so-called “engineering grenade” which would not be fatal except at extremely close range.