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...lest they be targeted by the Islamists. As security forces 200,000 strong took up posts in Algiers and other large cities, motorists were stopped every few hundred yards at police and army check-points. At campaign rallies, supporters were often outnumbered by bodyguards and police brandishing pistols and AK-47 assault rifles...
Purvis says the remaining stumbling block to peace is disarming more than 50,000 adolescents still roaming the country with AK-47s. "It is going to take a major infusion of foreign aid. If they can't be provided jobs, then at least schools must be built and staffed...
...enough," says Defense correspondent Mark Thompson ofSaddam Hussein's newfound honesty.Now that the Iraqi leader has admitted to U.N. officials that he harbored agerm warfare programthroughout the Gulf War, Thompson says, "we know he doesn't have any weapons of mass destruction, but he still uses AK-47s on the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south." International attention, he adds, is now focused squarely on whether the U.S. will permit lifting crippling economic sanctions against Iraq...
...weaponry to join the militia-at-large Raider Company based in Dexter. Last September in the Michigan town of Fowlerville, three men claiming to be Koernke's "bodyguards" and "unorganized militia" members were arrested while transporting a .357 magnum revolver, three semiautomatic pistols, three loaded assault rifles (an AK-47, an M-1 and an M-14), three gas masks and assorted other military gear. Two of the three are currently in custody. Local authorities say no further inquiry has been made into their connections with Koernke...
Many students think of him for his guns, which he and other members of the Harvard Shooting Club keep in the University police station.(He refuses to say how many guns he has but acknowledges he owns an AK...