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(Tbilisi) Authorities in Georgia released a photograph Monday of a man suspected of throwing a grenade at a podium where U.S. President George W. Bush was speaking in May. The grenade failed to explode and no one was hurt.Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili also announced a reward of 150,000 lari ($80,000 US) for information leading to the identification of the dark-haired man in dark glasses pictured in the photo.
Georgian and U.S. authorities believe he is the one who threw a grenade into the crowd of tens of thousands who watched Bush speak on May 10 in the former Soviet republic's capital, Tbilisi, Merabishvili told reporters.
The live grenade landed less than 30 metres from the podium but did not explode. A preliminary investigation indicated the activation device deployed too slowly to hit the blasting cap hard enough, the FBI said.