Word: ak
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...they have. Vlora's angry residents wrecked the town hall, the police station and SHIK headquarters, where six officers were killed in the attack. They looted the bank and warehouses and raided army depots abandoned by unhappy and undisciplined soldiers. It seems that every man in town has an AK-47 and fires it with abandon. At nightfall the constant crack of machine guns and the booming of explosives tossed into the harbor are deafening. Since last week 20 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded by gunfire, and a nurse at the Vlora hospital says perhaps half...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "What in the world is a weapon like [an AK-47] doing on the streets of Chicago? It was not there because any hunter needed it. It was there because the gangs and criminals and the psychos want to use it to kill as many people as they can and to outgun the police...
...upcoming events in the Gardner Museum's Sunday Concert Series are the Complete Piano Sonatas of Beethoven, Part 1, featuring Seymour Lipkin, on Oct.20, a recital of works by Mozart, Bach, Couperin, and Haydn for harpsihord and flute on Oct. 27, and the Borromeo String Quartet performing Dvor ak and Mozart on Nov.3. All concerts begin at 1:30 pm and the $9 fee for college students includes museum admission. For more information about upcoming concerts and ticket information, call...
After the first dozen men converged on the compound, drums echoed from the surrounding hilltops, summoning 300 more combatants from nearby villages. While one group negotiated with Bordeau, another, armed with clubs, machetes and AK-47s, stormed into the church. Tutsi, women and children among them, fled through a rear door and into the surrounding papyrus brush. They were hunted down. Hutu severed a woman's hands and feet. They cut out a man' s heart, leaving a huge gash in his chest. Bordeau was handed a baby, still breathing but drenched in his mother's blood...
...page criminal complaint filed in San Francisco's U.S. District Court last week, Hipple helped Ku smuggle in 20,000 machine-gun stands. Ku then told the agent to fax his weapons wish list to Ku's secretary, using code words: "apples" for automatic weapons; "Alpha Kings" for AK-47s; "poppers" for grenades. Later a Florida ATF agent was introduced to Ku as an arms dealer interested in machine guns. Eventually the undercover team negotiated an order for 2,000 AK-47s. They paid Ku and his associates $700,000 in cash and wire transfers to Beijing and Hong Kong...