(((He's a former "counterterrorism" official, and now he's blowing up the political headquarters of rival politicians with a personal stash of 400 kilos of explosives. Well, five years after 9/11, you can't say he didn't learn from the enemy.)))
GEORGIAN POLICE ARREST ASSOCIATE OF FORMER MINISTER IN THWARTED
BOMBING. Georgian police arrested an activist of the Justice movement on September 9 after he was caught trying to plant a bomb in the Tbilisi headquarters of the ruling National Movement party, the
Caucasus Press and Rustavi-2 reported. Interior Minister Vano
Merabishvili reported that police detained Aleksander Chumburidze, a
former counterterrorism official who worked from 1993-95 for former
National Security Minister Igor Giorgadze, and found a detonator and
400 kilograms of explosives in his possession. The incident follows
the recent arrest of more than a dozen of Giorgadze's supporters and
friends for allegedly conspiring to overthrow the government (see
"RFE/RL Newsline," September 8, 2006). RG
