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NAME: GEO SUSPECT 3 210705N TAPE: EF05/0647 IN_TIME: 10:37:26:10 DURATION: 00:03:11:00 SOURCES: Various DATELINE: Various, 20 July 2005 RESTRICTIONS: See Script SHOTLIST Vashlidzhvari - July 20, 2005 1. Armed guards at the scene of the shootout 2. Mid shot of ambulance 3. Elderly woman being escorted through crowds away from the scene 4. Close up of dead police officer lying in the back of an ambulance 5. Ambulance leaving 6. Local neighbours standing watching 7. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Tsitsino Lakoboshvili, local resident: "We were at home when somebody knocked on the door. My daughter opened the door; she is 17-years-old. There was a young man with a handgun, he wanted to force his way in and I pushed him out. I said I would call the police but he was asking for help and he wanted to come in and asked if he could make a call. After that I called the police." 8. Guards asking people to move away 9. Lady being escorted from the scene 10. Wide of the scene of the shootout AP PHOTOS - no access Canada/Internet File - July 18 11. Four photos released by the Georgian Interior Ministry showing Vladimir Arutyunyan, who is suspected of throwing a grenade in Tbilisi on May 10, 2005, during the speech of the U.S. President George Bush Vashlidzhvari - July 20, 2005 12. Briefing by Georgia's Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili File Tbilisi - May 10, 2005 13. US President George W. Bush walking out to address crowds 14. Security officers alerted to security threat Vashlidzhvari - July 20, 2005 15. Scene of the shootout 16. Scene cordoned off 17. Floodlit scene with stretcher in the background on the ground 18. Crowds at the scene STORYLINE A man arrested after a fatal shootout with police has admitted throwing a grenade at a rally in May where U.S. President George W. Bush was making a speech, the Georgian government said on Thursday. The government said the suspect made the admission in the hospital, where he is being treated for wounds suffered in the shootout that erupted in a village on the outskirts of the capital Tbilisi when police tried to arrest him late Wednesday. One policeman was killed in the shootout and the suspect, Vladimir Arutyunian, fled into a nearby woods. He was captured about an hour later and taken to a hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds. Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili were on the podium in front of a massive crowd in dowtown Tbilisi when the live grenade was thrown. The grenade landed less than 100 feet (30 meters) 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. Georgia's Interior Minister, Vano Merabishvili , gave a briefing shortly after Wednesday's arrest, in which he expressed his condolences to the family of Zurab Kvlivishvili, the police officer killed during the shootout. He said Arutyunyan had also been wounded in the course of his arrest and said an investigation was underway as to what his motives for the crime might have been. Merabishvili had previously offered a reward of about 80,000 US dollars for information leading to the capture of the man responsible for the failed attack.