Peru: Man with 36 grenades held

In the L.A. Times' World Briefing:

Peruvian police arrested a man with 36 grenades in his backpack, days before 21 heads of state and government are to meet in Lima for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

The arrest of Edwin Valladolid, 31, comes as suspected holdouts of the Maoist Shining Path rebel group, which led a bloody rebellion until its leaders were captured in the 1990s, have launched a series of attacks in recent weeks.

On Sunday, the group shot dead three police officers and wounded a fourth in the Ayacucho region, about 350 miles southeast of Lima.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City

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[Peruanista]

And just like it happened in the first Bush visit to Lima, when a car bomb was exploded at the Defense ministry building -rumors say it was an operation by Peruvian Intelligence and the CIA to scare locals.

This time, is a man walking in Lima with 36 grenades in his backpack - and quickly they say he was a member of the Shining Path guerrilla. You got to be kidding.

Do the Peruvian authorities think that we are really stupid? Who would be walking around with 36 grenades... that sounds like a joke really.