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High Demand for Guns, Lebanon's 'AK-47 Index' May Be Pointing to War
3 February 2010
National (Abu Dhabi)
BEIRUT - Abu Mahdi spends most of his day sitting in a plastic chair in front of a dilapidated concrete block shack on the outskirts of Beirut's southern suburbs puffing on a water pipe and pouring coffee for a steady stream of visitors and customers that have come to examine his inventory.
Two of his first customers on a cold winter morning are young fighters in their late teens from the militant Shiite movement Hizbollah who are enraptured with a selection of... (GunPolicy.org)