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...proudly shows off the mangled 7.62mm AK-47 shell the surgeons pulled from his right leg. The medic Barbe, however, is troubled by the news that an ambulance might have opened fire on his fellow soldiers. The rules of war don't seem to apply in Iraq. "That red cross is the only protection we got," says Barbe, "and they clearly don't care about that...
Mikhail Kalashnikov, 83, the inventor of the AK-47 or Kalashnikov rifle, recently announced a deal with a German manufacturer to begin producing umbrellas under the Kalashnikov brand name as a way of distancing his name from his more infamous eponymous invention. Time since the AK-47 first debuted in combat...
Time required for an AK-47 to fire 650 rounds of ammunition...
...Iraq. Many Iraqi forces are no longer in conventional military formation, but have adopted guerrilla tactics to face a more powerful enemy. Tuesday's sandstorm attack on the 7th Cavalry, for example, was carried out by members of the Fedayeen Saddam, a youth militia run by Uday Hussein, firing AK-47s and RPGs from SUVs and other non-military vehicles. And Saddam is certainly hoping the survival of his regime for the first week of the war will inspire some of the tribal chieftains he has courted and (and armed) over the past decade to join the battle by harassing...
TURKEY Recep Tayyip Erdogan, head of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) party, was appointed Prime Minister after parliament overturned a law barring him from public office because of a conviction for inciting religious hatred. He is likely to call for a second parliamentary vote on a motion to allow the deployment of U.S. troops on Turkish soil. Washington wants to open a northern front in any war against Iraq and needs Turkish bases to do so. Parliament's approval of the deployment would be controversial, since the Turkish public is overwhelmingly antiwar. The cash-strapped government has negotiated...