tbilisi, georgia -- Thousands of opposition supporters rallied Friday in Georgia's capital, demanding that the president step down after the arrest of a former defense minister who accused him of involvement in a murder plot.
President Mikhail Saakashvili, who has been at the United Nations in New York, has not commented on the allegations by former Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili. This week, Okruashvili alleged that the president, a former ally, had encouraged him to kill a businessman.
