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...leftovers from Soviet military aid programs in Egypt and China, given to the mujahedin by the governments of those countries. They generally include Soviet-made Kalashnikov rifles, bazookas and portable antitank rocket launchers (RPG-7s). Against Soviet air attacks the rebels have only a few ZPU-1 14.5-mm machine guns and hundreds of 12.7-mm DShK heavy machine guns identical to those discovered in blasted Soviet tanks...
...taxes, running his own schools and organizing his own food-rationing scheme. He has even used captured Soviet trucks to establish daily bus service in the valley. Massoud is also prudent enough to avoid needless risks. He travels with four gun-wielding bodyguards and packs a 9-mm automatic under his jacket. In order to elude the KhAD, he sleeps in a different house each night...
...officer hit Pierce in the shoulder while a soldier pressed a Kalashnikov assault rifle into his back. Another officer struck Foley in the face several times and leveled a 9-mm pistol at his head. The soldiers severely beat the driver, who suffered a broken finger and thumb as well as multiple bruises. Pierce was bound with wire and taken to a Syrian military headquarters in Tripoli...
...built-in straws and, most of all, the ear-splitting noise the empty boxes make when stomped. Says Ralph Graves, vice president of California's Real Fresh: "After the container's empty, kids blow it up and jump on it. It goes off like a 108-mm howitzer...
Ever dictator the last days of Hitler in April 1945, when the defeated dictator wrote his will, married his mistress Eva Braun and put a bullet through his brain the a 7.65-mm Walther pistol, phony Hitleriana -including the will, the marriage certificate and the pistol-have flooded the worldwide market for Nazi memorabilia. In 1981, for example, an avid collector asked the noted West German historian Werner Maser to authenticate what he claimed was the suicide pistol of Maser last week: "I told him there existed a whole suitcase full of Hitler of guns, all forged with Hitler...