Word: 47s
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According to the military officials, the series of raids took five hours and left at least 23 people dead. In all, two AK-47s were discovered. The military has classified the 15 victims in the first two houses as noncombatants. It considers the four men killed in the fourth house, as well as four youths killed by the Marines near the site of the roadside bombing, as enemy fighters. The question facing naval detectives is whether the Marines' killing of 15 noncombatants was an act of legitimate self-defense or negligent homicide. Military sources say that if the NCIS finds...
...Mahmad, an officer in the�Afghan national police, was on his way to Sangin, in southwestern Afghanistan, last month when he found himself fighting for his life. He was traveling in a police convoy of five dilapidated pickup trucks armed with a modest arsenal of rocket launchers and AK-47s. As the patrol neared Sangin, Mahmad, 22, heard gunshots. He looked up to see that the man riding next to him was dead. Soon they were surrounded by Taliban guerrillas who had charged from the hilltops shouting "Allahu akbar." Five policemen were killed before commanders called in air support...
...followers may not tolerate it and could turn on the Americans again. Today al-Sadr vowed revenge for the attack and threatened to take matters into his own hands unless the Iraqi government does something. In Sadr City, thousands of Sadr supporters took to the streets waving AK-47s and shouting ant-American slogans. In Kut, another Sadr stronghold, about 3,000 people marched in the streets, burning American and Israeli flags and shouting anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans...
...initial question. At the climax of the movie, a likeable Ukrainian carrier pilot reveals that the same flights that export fish to Europe bring weapons from illegal European Union dealers into the jungles of Africa. In a word, Europeans get good tasty fillets, and Africa gets deadly AK-47s...
...November, the Houston nightclubs were having New Orleans nights," says Harris, when the groups would sometimes spot old rivals in the parking lots of clubs. Often, Harris says, "These shootings were dope deals gone bad." The shooters were heavily armed with everything from pistols and shotguns to AK-47s, and three suspects remain at large...