Word: ak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wife beater was himself abused as a child. The juvenile murderer was exposed to Motley Crue records and Terminator movies. But do environmental factors wholly account for the seven-year-old child who tortures frogs? The teenager who knifes a teacher? The employee who slaughters workmates with an AK-47? Can society's ills really be responsible for all the savagery that is sweeping America? Or could some people be predisposed to violence by their genes...
Each morning the Iraqi artillery begin to find their targets. Deep in the standing reeds where the gunners cannot easily find them, black-robed women tend their children and few remaining buffalo in tiny makeshift clearings, while men, armed with old AK-47 assault rifles, crouch in hidden blinds along the waterways, waiting for Iraqi patrols. Only at nightfall, when the government troops return to their bases, can the men creep back to their families to sleep...
...Intelligence Agency employees literally at the gate of the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Who was the shooter? What was the motive? A breakthrough occurred when the roommate of 28-year-old Mir Aimal Kansi reported him missing. Kansi's Reston, Virginia, apartment was searched, a Chinese-made AK-47 was found, and FBI firearms experts concluded that it was the gun that fired cartridge casings recovered at the crime scene. Kansi was charged with capital murder and placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Police had the weapon but needed the man. Where was Kansi...
...place that almost feels safe." Bringing peace to Somalia's interior, however, may take some doing. In Baidoa, Purvis saw a young Somali no more than eight years old waltz up to a relief worker who was carrying a bag of cheese-flavored chips. "The kid had an AK-47 draped over his shoulder, its muzzle almost dragging in the dust," says Purvis. While Purvis watched, the pint-size gunman reached up and snatched the bag of chips. A Somali man standing nearby yelled at him, but the child, who was much better armed and knew it, just stared...
...people of Somalia know that the immediate threat is less the rivalry of the factional leaders than the abundance of weapons. Order cannot be restored permanently until the country's thugs are separated from their sophisticated caches of weapons, which range from AK-47s to surface-to-air missiles and technicals, the Mad Max vehicles mounted with heavy machine guns and antiaircraft weapons. Residents do not mistake Mogadishu's relative calm for peace; they know that the thugs have simply redeployed to the bush...