New Report Shows God's Protection as Real Grenade Thrown at Bush--Doesn't Go Off!

Niko Mchedlishvili / Aimee Herd, Steve Shultz reporting : May 18, 2005
Reuters

Editor's Note: The other day my teenage son and I were reading from the book "Under God" by Toby Mac and Michael Tait about a British officer during the French and Indian War, who could not be killed by the well-aimed bullets that filled the air of the battle. All around this man fellow British soldiers and officers fell to the ground, eventually leaving only him. Though "round after round" was fired at this one man, even killing his horse, he stood untouched. Finally the Native Chief called off his warriors saying "Stop firing, this one is under the protection of the Great Spirit." Later that night, the British officer found his jacket was riddled with bullet holes. That man was later known as George Washington, first President of the United States…he was never wounded in all the battles he fought. Similar to this story is the recent news of the grenade thrown at President George W. Bush that did not explode. It is another testimony to the mighty power and sovereign protection of our God. To find out more about the book "Under God," see the bottom of today's email.-Aimee Herd, Breaking Christian News.

On the morning of the incident last week, BCN reported on a device, thought to be a possible grenade, that was thrown at President George W. Bush during his keynote speech in Tbilisi's Freedom Square, Georgia. After examination, it has been determined that this device was a real grenade, and the only reason it didn't explode was due to its malfunction, says the FBI.

A statement released by C. Bryan Paarmann, the FBI's legal attache at the U.S. Embassy read, "We consider this act to be a threat against the health and welfare of both the President of the United States and the President of Georgia as well as the multitude of Georgian people that had turned out at this event. 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."

It is not known who threw the grenade, but a reward of 20,000 laris -- about $9,000 -- was offered for information "leading to the arrest and conviction of this individual."