Palestinian policemen with AK-47 February 5, 2005

Masked Palestinian policemen point their AK-47 machine-guns during training in the West Bank city of Hebron, February 5, 2005. Israel approved a troop pullback from West Bank cities and the release of 900 Palestinian prisoners, measures crucial to the success of a summit with the Palestinians in Egypt next week

20 AK-47s February 1, 2005

A video image shows men arrested by Iraqi security forces on February 1, 2005, suspected of being involved in a series of recent attacks in the capital Baghdad. The men were caught during a crackdown launched by Iraqi forces and the multi-national forces aimed at reducing attacks during Sunday's election. The Iraqi forces also confiscated scores of weapons and explosives, including 20 AK-47s, dozens of mortar rounds and hundreds of detonator caps, automatic machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

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Hamas brandish their AK-47

Militants of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the main Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, brandish their AK-47 rifles as they take part in the funeral of Omar Salman Tabech who died in a suicide attack in Gush Katif.

(AFP/Said Khatib)

Federal agents remove firearms

Federal agents remove firearms, ammunition, computers and other items from the home where Keith Gilbert was arrested yesterday. Agents stacked and sorted the guns on Gilbert's lawn. Roosevelt High School, seen at left, is one block north. The school is closed for renovation

Islamic Jihad militant

An Islamic Jihad militant brandishes his gun during a rally in Gaza City. Israel confirmed that it had tried to assassinate a member of the radical Palestinian movement in an air strike, the first such targeted killing operation in months. This looks like an AMD-65 with a 50 or 70 round magazine

(AFP/File/Mohammed Abed)

 

Gunman fires his weapon Sunday June 26, 2005

A gunman fires his weapon of a crowd gathering during Palestinians gather during a rally of the al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigades, a militia linked to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, in the West Bank town of Nablus Sunday June 26, 2005.

(AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

Gold AK-47 Lamps

   Flos have just launched a new range of table lamps designed by Philippe Starck fashioned from gold plates handguns and AK47's. The gold of the weapons represents the collusion between money and war Table Gun symbolises the East Bed Side Gun symbolises Europe Lounge Gun stands for the West The black shade signifies death The crosses on the inside are to remind us of our dead ones"

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Guard holds an AK-47 February 4, 2005

A security guard holds an AK-47 rifle outside the Sheikh Abdul Qadir Mosque as a young girl looks out from behind a curtain during Friday prayers in Baghdad, February 4, 2005. Witnesses said masked men planted explosives around the building early in the morning then blew it up. No one was injured in the blast.

A mourner shoots an AK-47 April 15, 2005

A mourner shoots an AK-47 into the air at the funeral for two Iraqi journalists killed in twin suicide bomb attacks in Baghdad April 15, 2005. Iraqi Kurdish al-Hurriyah TV cameraman Ali Ibrahim and news coordinator Fadil Hazim were killed whilst Awwad al-Rikabi was seriously injured in the attack which left at least 15 people dead on Thursday.

REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber

A US Army soldier finds an AK47

A US Army soldier, from the the 1st Battalion 5th Infantry, consults with his platoon sergeant about an AK-47 automatic rifle found in a home during an inspection raid for possible weapon caches in the Palestine district of Mosul.

Malalai Badahari and Habiba Sultani

Malalai Badahari (left) with her colleague Habiba Sultani at police headquarters in Kabul. By day Malalai Badahari wears dark glasses, combat fatigues and wields an AK-47. But at dusk the diminutive counter-narcotics cop slips her veil back on her head and goes back to her home life, where all her neighbours think she is a teacher.

(AFP/Farzana Wahidy)

Malalai Badahari wields an AK-47

By day Malalai Badahari wears dark glasses, combat fatigues and wields an AK-47. But at dusk the diminutive counter-narcotics cop slips her veil back on her head and goes back to her home life, where all her neighbours think she is a teacher.

(AFP/Farjana Wahidy)