Gun Policy News
Firearm violence, gun control and small arms
Australie,Afghanistan,Russie,Asie centrale,Pakistan,Chine,Turquie,Brésil
UN Rule of Thumb Suggests 600,000 Illegal Guns in Australia
21 October 2016
Age (Melbourne)
As many as 600,000 illegal guns could be circulating in the Australian underworld, but national efforts to control the spread is being hampered by inconsistencies between states, a firearms intelligence report has found.
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission report on guns - to be released on Friday, the same day as state and federal government representatives meet to thrash out a way to combat illegal firearms - also backs a national amnesty.
Chris Dawson,... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Age (Melbourne)
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États-Unis,Afghanistan,Iraq
US Lost Hundreds of Thousands of Guns In Iraq, Afghanistan
24 August 2016
New York Times
Early this year, a Facebook user in Baghdad using the name Hussein Mahyawi posted a photograph of a slightly worn M4 assault rifle he was offering for sale. Veterans of the latest war in Iraq immediately recognized it. It was a standard American carbine equipped with a holographic sight, a foregrip that was military-issue during the occupation and a sticker bearing a digital QR code used by American forces for inventory control. Except for one detail — an aftermarket... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : New York Times
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Arabie saoudite,Afghanistan,Bulgarie,Italie,Syrie,République tchèque,Iran,Libye,Yémen,Royaume-Uni,Ukraine,États-Unis,Soudan du Sud,France
World Powers Accused of Violating Arms Trade Treaty [ES]
23 August 2016
IPS Noticias
[Translated summary: Human Rights organisations and military analysts accuse the United States, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France and Italy of violating the Arms Trade Treaty by selling to countries in conflict. Experts say that effectively implementing the treaty could save millions of lives.]
NACIONES UNIDAS - Los grandes proveedores de armamento violan el tratado que regula su comercio y que se propone frenar el flujo de armas pequeñas y ligeras hacia las zonas de... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : IPS Noticias
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Europe,Union Européenne,Albanie,Macédoine,Bosnie-Herzégovine,Iraq,Afrique du Nord,Afghanistan,Serbie,Croatie
Chasing Exports, Balkan Countries Foster Gun, Ammunition Industries
24 February 2014
Southeast European Times
Balkan countries are taking measures to support domestic military firms in an effort to improve their economies and develop closer relations with NATO, experts said.
Governments pay more attention to the military industry's economic potential, said Blagoja Markovski, president of the Balkan Security Forum in Skopje.
"It offers extraordinary opportunities to create jobs and help the development of the economy. Individual countries' earnings range from tens of millions... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Southeast European Times
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Iraq,Syrie,Israël,Inde,Irlande,Togo,Canada,États-Unis,Afghanistan,Côte d'Ivoire,Iran,Sri Lanka,Allemagne,Russie
Growing Number of Personalised Firearms to Boost Safety Available
30 November 2013
Economist
To help push Soviet forces out of Afghanistan in the 1980s, America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) gave Afghan fighters shoulder-launched Stinger anti-aircraft missiles (pictured). Accurate and easy-to-use, the Stingers caused grievous losses. But after the Soviet withdrawal in 1989, the CIA wanted to discourage the use of the leftover missiles. It got hold of some of those circulating on the black market and booby-trapped them, so that anyone who tried to fire one... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Economist
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Afghanistan
Officials Warn Afghans Not to Celebrate Football Win with Gunfire
12 September 2013
Reuters
President Hamid Karzai embraced Afghanistan's victorious football team on Thursday, hours after they united the nation in a rare moment of shared joy, but officials also told jubilant Afghans to stop firing guns into the air in celebration.
The national men's team beat India 2-0 to win the South Asian Football Federation championship in Kathmandu late on Tuesday, Afghanistan's first international football title, sending tens of thousands of joyous Afghans into the... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Reuters
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République tchèque,Hongrie,Côte d'Ivoire,Iran,Guinée,Niger,Russie,Soudan du Sud,Chine,Ouganda,Afghanistan,Nigeria,Kenya,Iraq,République démocratique du Congo (RDC)
Trail of Bullet Casings Leads from Africa's Wars Back to Iran
11 January 2013
New York Times
The first clues appeared in Kenya, Uganda and what is now South Sudan. A British arms researcher surveying ammunition used by government forces and civilian militias in 2006 found Kalashnikov rifle cartridges he had not seen before. The ammunition bore no factory code, suggesting that its manufacturer hoped to avoid detection.
Within two years other researchers were finding identical cartridges circulating through the ethnic violence in Darfur. Similar ammunition then... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : New York Times
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France,Royaume-Uni,Somalie,Afghanistan,Égypte,Syrie,États-Unis,Afrique
Excluding Ammunition from Arms Trade Treaty 'Totally Irrational' - Oxfam
30 May 2012
Oxfam International (Oxford), Media release
Excluding ammunition from new international Arms Trade Treaty would be "totally irrational"
Global sales of ammunition are worth more than $4 billion and are growing at a faster rate than trade in guns, yet there is virtually no regulation in place to control where the bullets end up, according to international agency Oxfam, in a new report today.
The report, 'Stop a Bullet, Stop a War,' has been published ahead of this summer's Arms Trade Treaty negotiations in New... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Oxfam International (Oxford)
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États-Unis,France,Chine,Pakistan,Afghanistan,Suède
Pakistan a 'Very Gun-friendly Society,' 9 in 10 Owners Unlicensed
30 April 2012
Dawn (Karachi)
On January 25 this year, 32-year-old Waqas, a garment factory employee was hit by a bullet in New Karachi and he died. The bullet was not fired from the gun of a target killer, but by friends of a bridegroom amidst late-night wedding celebrations.
Two children aged 10 and 12, died in Sialkot in a similar incident on February 20, when the jubilant brother of a bridegroom unleashed a burst of bullets.
Such accidents, almost an every-day affair in Pakistan, never make it... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Dawn (Karachi)
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Éthiopie,Afrique du Sud,Burkina Faso,Sierra Leone,Afrique occidentale,Ukraine,Côte d'Ivoire,Europe de l'Est,Russie,République centrafricaine,Iraq,Afghanistan,États-Unis,Colombie,Angola,Liberia,Afrique du Nord,Asie occidentale,Afrique
Shadowy 'Merchants of Death' Behind Africa's Illegal Gun-Running
11 April 2012
Think Africa Press (London)
Arms dealer Viktor Bout was sentenced to 25 years by a US federal court last week.
Widely known as the 'merchant of death', the 45-year-old Russian has delivered weapons and arms to a wide range of presidents, insurgents and rebels in Africa and the Middle East including the likes of Charles Taylor in Liberia and Jonas Savimbi in Angola. He was caught in a US sting in which his services were solicited for the supply of weapons to Colombia's FARC rebels.
His companies... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Think Africa Press (London)
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Inde,Afghanistan,Iraq,Sierra Leone,Afrique du Sud,Arabie saoudite,États-Unis,Royaume-Uni,Océanie,Europe,Asie,Amérique,Afrique
'The Shadow World', an Incisive Exposé of the ArmsTrade - Book Review
1 November 2011
Telegraph (UK), Book review
If there is one book unlikely to appear on the Christmas reading lists of the former defence secretary Liam Fox and his self-professed adviser Adam Werritty, one suspects that this is it. The sorry case of Dr Fox and the mystery chum-cum-lobbyist amplifies what critics of the defence procurement industry – Feinstein prefers the racier "global arms trade" – have long argued. To put it mildly, and in a nutshell, it is not known for its transparency. Nor, for that... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Telegraph (UK)
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Canada,Iraq,Afghanistan
Canadian Groups Want Some Guns Banned Before Registry Is Scrapped
23 October 2011
Vancouver Sun (British Columbia)
After finishing a rotation through Afghanistan with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, 22-year-old Dan Styles is back in Canada, safe and sound with his young family.
When he's not caring for his one-year-old baby daughter, Styles now spends a lot of his personal time at the shooting range near his home at CFB Petawawa, in eastern Ontario. There, he hones the skills he relied on in the field.
"It's practice, practice, practice," he says. "The better you get at it,... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Vancouver Sun (British Columbia)
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Kirghizistan,République tchèque,Pakistan,Afghanistan,Asie centrale,Russie,Ouzbékistan,Chine,Kazakhstan,Union Européenne,États-Unis,Colombie,Iran
Smuggling of Small Arms in Central Asia Is Endemic - British Expert
2 August 2011
Journal of Turkish Weekly (Turkey), Transcript
British intelligence analyst and journalist Richard M. Bennett says the Fergana Valley is extremely vulnerable to the covert smuggling of arms and drugs, despite the official reports of Central Asian governments denying its highlighted status. Mr. Bennett told JTW that Russia has been responsible for an overwhelming amount of illegal arms circulating in ex-Soviet Central Asia. In his view, Russia's military intelligence (GRU) is the mastermind of major trafficking... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Journal of Turkish Weekly (Turkey)
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États-Unis,Norvège,Royaume-Uni,Afrique,Afghanistan,Mexique
Gun Trade Inevitably Leads to the Sort of Atrocity Inflicted on Norway
31 July 2011
Independent (UK), Opinion
In discussion of the atrocity in Norway last week, there is one subject which has been notable by the almost total silence about it: guns. In response to recurring massacres in American high schools and British villages, in response to footage from Africa and Afghanistan showing ragged, untrained young men brandishing automatic small arms, in response to a man coolly murdering dozens of youngsters in an hour-and-a-half, funfair-like shooting spree on a Norwegian island,... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Independent (UK)
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Iraq,Afghanistan,États-Unis
The Right to Bear Arms Guaranteed for US Military Troops?
27 May 2011
Wall Street Journal, Blog
Tucked away in the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill that the House passed Thursday is a curious provision: an amendment that would ensure that troops deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq have the "right to bear arms."
You read that correctly. The House voted 260 to 160 to approve an amendment to the bill that would revise the military's "rules of engagement" to ensure troops in conflict zones can defend themselves.
Seem a bit redundant? Rep. John Mica (R., Fla.), who... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Wall Street Journal
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Iraq,Indonésie,Serbie,Jordanie,Afghanistan
Serbian Weapon Maker Foresees 30% Rise in Sniper Rifle Exports
12 January 2011
Bloomberg (USA)
Zastava Oruzje, a Serbian weapons maker, made $17 million of sales abroad in 2010 and expects the figure to rise 30 percent this year as a result of contracts to sell sniper rifles to Jordan and Indonesia, Blic reported, citing General Manager Rade Gromovic.
The maker of handguns, military and hunting rifles also plans to continue supplying the Iraqi and Afghan armies until at least 2014, the newspaper... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Bloomberg (USA)
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Afghanistan
Afghan Man Guns Down 16 Family Members Over Property Dispute
27 September 2009
Xinhua
KABUL — In a rare incident, a man in Ghazni province south of Afghanistan shot dead 16 members of his family and self over property dispute, provincial police chief said Sunday.
"Mohammad Zaman, son of Qari Abdul Hakim, sprayed bullets and killed 16 members of his family including his father and later shot himself dead Saturday night," Khialbaz Shirzoi told Xinhua.
Only his mother and his child who were not present at the site of the bloody incident have escaped,... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Xinhua
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Afghanistan
$600 for a Kalashnikov: A Sign of Bloodshed to Come in Afghanistan
2 September 2009
Independent (UK)
KABUL — The price of Kalashnikovs has doubled in Afghanistan. For a country awash with arms, the fact that the weapons are now fetching $600 apiece is a cause of some surprise, but a surge of demand is to blame for the increase, with a steady stream of weapons said to be heading for the north.
This is the Tajik constituency of Abdullah Abdullah, the presidential candidate who claims the election is being stolen by the incumbent Western-backed President, Hamid... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Independent (UK)
30913
Afghanistan
Taliban Moving from AK-47 to AK-74 to Penetrate NATO Body Armour?
2 September 2009
Wired (USA), Web page
One way of finding out what sort of weapons the Taliban favor is to go the usual military route: examine captured arsenals and look for shell casings after a firefight. Or you could just go and talk to the man who apparently sells them their weapons, as Guardian reporter Ghaith Abdul-Ahad recently did. The results were highly instructive.
Abdul-Ahab talked to a man named Hekmat, formerly a shopkeeper but now a wealthy smuggler. Hekmat made his fortune ferrying arms... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Wired (USA)
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Afghanistan
Gun Runners, Drug Traffickers Continue to Fuel War in Afghanistan
18 August 2009
Guardian (UK)
Hekmat the smuggler and I sat among a group of men in a wood-walled hotel room in Ishkashim, a town in Badakh-shan province in the far north of Afghanistan.
The room's balcony took in a breathtaking view of the river Amu, which shimmered in the sunlight beneath the Pamir mountains.
The Amu, also known as the Oxus, is the greatest river in central Asia, and for several hundred miles its upper reaches mark the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan to the... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Guardian (UK)
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Afghanistan,Canada
Afghan Security Guards Secretly Armed with Canadian Assault Rifles
17 June 2009
Canadian Press
OTTAWA — Canada's military secretly armed Afghan civilians hired as security guards at a forward operating base in Afghanistan, federal documents show.
The unidentified "guard force" was also provided with uniforms so they would not be "mistaken for Canadian soldiers or for that matter members of the Afghan National Army," says a briefing note obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.
All Canadian bases in southern Afghanistan have some... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Canadian Press
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Pakistan,Iraq,Afghanistan
Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan Arming Village Vigilantes with Flood of Guns
4 March 2009
Christian Science Monitor
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — In the town of Budaber, six miles from Peshawar's city center, Daud Khan makes sure his Kalashnikov is loaded before stepping into the dark street. As he walks out, seven young men join him, all armed.
Mr. Khan is a member of the nighttime civilian patrols that guard the streets and escort residents home. They usually work from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., the peak time for bomb attacks, a local says.
Do-it-yourself security teams are becoming a fixture in... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Christian Science Monitor
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États-Unis,Afghanistan,Albanie
21yr-old US Gun Dealer Got $300m Pentagon Arms Contract, Handcuffs
18 February 2009
Details / GQ (USA)
On the afternoon of May 16, 2007, an Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane rumbled down the tarmac at Burgas Airport in eastern Bulgaria, its hold packed with 110,000 grenades bound for Kabul, Afghanistan. The aircraft lifted off, climbed above the rolling farmlands to the west and the Black Sea to the east, and headed toward war.
Half a world away, on the first floor of a sun-dappled office building amid the palm trees of Miami Beach, Florida, a 21-year-old high-school dropout... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Details / GQ (USA)
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États-Unis,Afghanistan
One-third of US Guns Issued in Afghanistan Now 'Missing,' Say Officials
12 February 2009
CNN
WASHINGTON — More than one-third of all weapons the United States has procured for Afghanistan's government are missing, according to a government report released Thursday.
The U.S. military failed to "maintain complete inventory records for an estimated 87,000 weapons — or about 36 percent — of the 242,000 weapons that the United States procured and shipped to Afghanistan from December 2004 through June 2008," a U.S. Government Accountability Office report... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : CNN
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Afghanistan
Afghans Rediscover the Lee-Enfield
22 January 2009
Strategy Page (USA), Web Page
Afghan traditionalists are changing the way the Taliban fight. This can be seen by the increase in the use of sniping by the Taliban. In the last year, NATO units in southern Afghanistan estimate there has been a 25 percent increase in sniping incidents. This is not seen as a major danger. NATO troops wear protective bests and helmets that can stop bullets fired at long range, making it very frustrating for the Taliban shooters trying to hit a distant target in a... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Strategy Page (USA)
29067
Afghanistan,Iraq,Russie,Bulgarie
Bulgaria, 7 Other Nations Make 'Unlicensed, Illegal' AK-47s, Export to Iraq
20 November 2008
FOCUS News Agency (Bulgaria) / Praim-TASS
MOSCOW — 7-8 countries in the world are currently dealing with unlicensed production of machine guns "Kalashnikov", Nikolay Dimidyuk from Rosoboronexport said, cited by Praim-TASS.
According to his evaluation there was a total nuisance in the world regarding the production of 'false' Kalashnikov guns, in particular in Bulgaria.
'I will not mention other countries, so as not to offend them. The Americans allowed Bulgaria to build a factory for the production of... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : FOCUS News Agency (Bulgaria) / Praim-TASS
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Afghanistan,Iran,Pakistan,Russie
Wide Range of Guns, Weapons Readily Accessible to Taleban Fighters
18 September 2008
BBC News
AFGHANISTAN — "We sometimes seize arms and ammunition," said a Taleban commander in south-eastern Afghanistan. "We're using whatever weapons are left over from Russian times and we buy from different sources — Pakistan, Iran, Russia — wherever we can get them."
I met the Taleban commander, a veteran of 30 years of war, in a safe house — one of the typical mud-built, fortress-like houses of the south-east where a six-metre (six-yard) high wall protects an... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : BBC News
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États-Unis,Royaume-Uni,Italie,Afghanistan,Iraq
Lax Management by US, UK, Italy Armed al-Qaida, Says Amnesty Report
17 September 2008
Middle East Times (Cairo) / UPI
WASHINGTON — Weak oversight of arms deals by the United States, England and Italy resulted in the illicit arming of al-Qaida, a new report by Amnesty International says.
The international non-governmental organization says that despite new measures implemented to regulate arms deals, thousands of weapons have ended up in the hands of al-Qaida militants operating in Iraq, Amnesty International reported.
The report, titled "Blood at the Crossroads: Making the Case for... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Middle East Times (Cairo) / UPI
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États-Unis,Afghanistan,Chine,Albanie
Miami Gun Dealer, 21, Caught in US$300 Million Pentagon Ammo Scam
16 August 2008
New Zealand Herald
When historians assess the Bush Administration's scandals, there is one that — even by the era's exacting standards — will amaze with its sheer chutzpah. The figure in the spotlight is Efraim Diveroli, 22. His Miami-Dade Police Department mug shot depicts a rather dazed, tussle-haired youth who looks like he might have spent a night clubbing.
Instead, as the beneficiary of a US$298 million ($426 million) United States Army contract, Diveroli, president of Miami... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : New Zealand Herald
27990
Afghanistan
Guns Threaten Development, Gender Equity, Security in Afghanistan
25 July 2008
IRIN (UN News), Web Page
The worsening security situation in Afghanistan is reducing the ability of humanitarian agencies to deliver life-saving assistance to vulnerable communities, according to a report by IRIN. Some 1.5 million people need urgent humanitarian assistance to respond to a severe drought. The French agency Action Contre la Faim (ACF) suspended operations in Afghanistan after 2 staff were kidnapped on 18 July. ACF has 250 staff in the country, and delivered assistance to 35,000... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : IRIN (UN News)
27806
Iraq,Afghanistan,Nations Unies,Bosnie-Herzégovine,Albanie,Serbie
Iraq, Afghan Wars, Exports from Bosnia, Albania Hurt Bid to Destroy Guns
15 July 2008
Agence France Presse
UNITED NATIONS — The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are undermining efforts to destroy surplus weapons by creating new markets for countries to sell their unwanted firearms, according to a survey.
Although the world is witnessing "the largest systematic destruction of military small arms and light weapons since the end of World War II," countries that would normally have destroyed their surplus weapons are now being encouraged to export them, the Small Arms Survey 2008... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Agence France Presse
27687
États-Unis,Afghanistan
Miami Gun Dealer Charged with Selling Chinese Ammo to Pentagon
21 June 2008
New York Times
WASHINGTON — The 22-year-old president of a Miami Beach arms-dealing company and three other people were charged Friday with selling prohibited Chinese ammunition to the Pentagon to supply Afghan security forces, federal officials said.
A federal grand jury in Miami indicted the munitions dealer, Efraim E. Diveroli, president of AEY Inc., as well as two former employees and a business associate, on charges of fraud and conspiring to misrepresent the types of... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : New York Times
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Slovaquie,États-Unis,Afghanistan,Albanie,Bulgarie,Roumanie,République tchèque,Hongrie
Slovakia Sold Ammunition to Miami Gun Dealer, Pentagon for Afghan War
8 April 2008
BBC Worldwide Monitoring / SME (Bratislava), Transcript
Slovakia has traded in arms with the AEY company, which is being investigated over fraud in the United States. The daily New York Times found out that the company had been selling old Chinese ammunition from Albania to the Afghanis for decades, claiming that it was from Hungary.
It purchased other weapons and munitions for the Afghanis in Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. It is not clear what exactly happened to the munitions and under what... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : BBC Worldwide Monitoring / SME (Bratislava)
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États-Unis,Afghanistan
Pentagon, Miami Beach Party Boy/Gun Dealer in $300m Afghan Ammo Deal
30 March 2008
Miami Herald / Knight-Ridder
Certain words tend to pop up in stories about arms dealers. Invariably, they're "shadowy." As if international arms merchants come out of the box with the factory default set to "shadowy."
Other words are just as inevitable. Figure on "AK-47" and "shoulder-fired missile" and "Miami." Though, in international arms trade parlance, the armament bazaar called Miami includes Fort Lauderdale, Key West, Hialeah, Sunshine Ranches and, of course, Miami Beach.
Shadowy Efraim... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Miami Herald / Knight-Ridder
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États-Unis,Afghanistan
US Congress Probes Miami Gun Dealer Over Suspect $200m Ammo Deal
28 March 2008
CNN
Efraim Diveroli's father hoped his son would become a doctor or lawyer.
What he got instead is a 22-year-old international arms dealer who faces a congressional inquiry for allegedly selling old Chinese ammunition to the U.S. military to equip allies in Afghanistan.
Diveroli is president of AEY Inc., a South Florida company which, according to U.S. government documents, has done more than $10 million of business with the U.S. government since 2004.
The papers also... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : CNN
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États-Unis,Afghanistan,Iraq,Chine
US Army Accuses Miami Gun Dealer of Fraud in $200m Afghan Ammo Deal
28 March 2008
New York Times
When the United States Army decided this week to suspend the main supplier of munitions to Afghan security forces from future federal work, it did so after a field investigation documented what it called an act of fraud.
Last Nov. 25, the president of the company, Efraim E. Diveroli, signed papers certifying that 28 pallets of ammunition for Afghanistan had been manufactured by MFS 2000, a Hungarian company, according to the investigators' memorandum.
Acting on a tip,... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : New York Times
26632
Afghanistan
Afghan Police Crackdown Strips Private Security Firms of Unlicensed Guns
10 February 2008
Times (UK)
KABUL — Afghan police have begun a crackdown on private security guards carrying guns in Kabul, paralysing foreign aid and other organisations whose rules oblige them to travel with armed escorts. The Interior Ministry has also detained four foreign employees of two security companies for several days, including two British citizens who were released on Saturday but still have charges pending against them, The Times has learnt.
A French citizen and a Nepalese former... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Times (UK)
26068
Afghanistan
Amid Fears of a Taliban Resurgence, Militias, Afghani Civilians Hoard Guns
28 October 2007
New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Many former militia commanders and residents in northern Afghanistan have been hoarding illegal weapons in violation of the country's disarmament laws, giving the excuse that they face a spreading Taliban insurgency from the south that government forces alone are too frail to stop, Afghan and Western officials say.
After years of moderate success for government disarmament programs, rumors of widespread defiance in the north have arisen recently... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : New York Times
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Serbie,Iraq,Afghanistan,Nations Unies
Serbian Gun Runner Shipped Tons of Guns, Ammunition to Various Conflicts
7 October 2007
New York Times
NIS, Serbia — For the past four years Tomislav Damnjanovic has played a crucial role in the United States' wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since 2003, he has delivered millions of rounds of ammunition, guns, grenades and mortars to the governments of Iraq and Afghanistan, United Nations officials say, facts he does not dispute. His aircraft have even been used to shuttle supplies between American bases in Iraq, saving troops from having to make hazardous trips by land.... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : New York Times
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Monténégro,Afghanistan,Croatie,Albanie,Bosnie-Herzégovine
Montenegro, Other Balkan Nations Donate Guns, Ammunition to Afghanistan
23 August 2007
SEESAC (Belgrade) / South East European Times, Transcript
Montenegro's government is defending its decision to send surplus weapons and ammunition to Afghanistan as a contribution to the global fight against terrorism.
On August 14th, the cabinet agreed to donate around 1,500 automatic rifles, 100 machine guns and 250,000 bullets to Afghan troops battling the Taliban. The explanation was that Montenegro wants to help stabilise Afghanistan and contribute to global security.
Opposition parties have questioned the move. The... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : SEESAC (Belgrade) / South East European Times
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Bosnie-Herzégovine,Afghanistan,Iraq,États-Unis,Nations Unies
Bosnia's Leftover Guns: Sell, Give to Iraq or Afghanistan, Destroy?
10 July 2006
Christian Science Monitor
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — What's been called the biggest arms transfer since World War II — the shipping of leftover weapons from Bosnia's 1992-1995 war to combat zones in the Middle East and elsewhere — may not have come to an end, despite a year-old moratorium on Bosnian arms sales.
As a UN conference on small arms wrapped up last week, key policymakers reviewed the UN's 2001 action program to end the illegal arms trade, but were unable to come up with a... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Christian Science Monitor
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Where the Gun Still Rules
7 June 2006
IRIN (UN News) / Reuters
KABUL — Abdullah Shah, 25, busily sews clothes in his small tailor's shop in Obdarra, a village in Anaba district in Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley, some 120 km north of the capital, Kabul. He has been the sole breadwinner in his family since his brother, Shafiqullah, was gunned down by a powerful warlord in late 2003. A slaying typical of an environment where local strong men still hold sway over local communities and often deliver ruthless punishment to those that... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : IRIN (UN News) / Reuters
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan Teaches Foreign 'Gunrunners' a Hard Lesson
7 December 2005
Washington Post / AP
KABUL, Afghanistan — Dozens of armed police burst into a Kabul guest house in October, arresting the stunned occupants. For an American, two Britons and an Indian, the raid began a trip through the Afghan justice system marked by violence, uncertainty and the possibility of years in prison.
After gun-smuggling charges, jail and a brief trial, the ordeal led Wednesday to acquittal for the American, suspended sentences for the others, and a look into the risks... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Washington Post / AP
18968
Afghanistan
Afghans Jail Britons, Indian for Possessing Guns
7 December 2005
New York Times / Reuters
KABUL — An Afghan court sentenced two Britons and an Indian to two years in jail on Wednesday after convicting them of illegally possessing firearms, but acquitted an American who stood trial with them.
The four men were arrested in October in a police raid on a Kabul guest house.
Judge Ansarullah Mawlavizada said Britons Peter Eaton and Michael Shaw and Indian Naveen Joshi had been found guilty of illegally possessing guns.
He said the prosecutor had accused them... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : New York Times / Reuters
18967
Afghanistan
UK, US, Indian Expats Among Six Arrested in Kabul for Gun Trafficking
11 November 2005
BBC News
The brother of an engineer held in Afghanistan on suspicion of gun running has said he is worried for his safety and does not believe he is guilty.
Peter Eaton, 52, from Milford Haven, was one of six men, two of them UK nationals, detained in the capital Kabul last month.
The men have not yet been charged and no date has been set for any trial.
Mr Eaton's brother, Tim, said: "I don't think my brother would have done anything like that."
Peter Eaton, who was... (GunPolicy.org)
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18769
Afghanistan
Over 50,000 Former Afghan Soldiers Have Disarmed, UN Reports
8 May 2005
UN News Service
More than 50,000 former Afghan military troops have disarmed, and 90 per cent of them have entered a programme aimed at helping them to re-join society, the United Nations reported today.
"The most popular area of reintegration is agriculture with 43.6 per cent of participants choosing that option," Ariane Quentier, spokesperson for the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), told a press briefing in the capital Kabul. "Vocational training is a distant second... (GunPolicy.org)
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Afghanistan
Final Phase in Afghan Disarmament
24 March 2005
BBC News
A campaign to disarm tens of thousands of militiamen in Afghanistan has entered the final phase.
The disarmament programme started by the United Nations 18 months ago has already resulted in 45,000 men giving up their guns.
In the final four months, weapons will be collected from the remaining militia units, particularly around Kabul.
Militiamen who hand in their guns are given training to help them settle into civilian life.
Desire to settle
One of the... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : BBC News
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Afghanistan
Too Many Weapons in Private Hands
7 March 2005
IRIN (UN News)
KABUL — In an episode that suggests Afghanistan is slowly becoming safer, Shir Alam a 50-year-old local commander, surrendered several hundred mt of arms to a United Nations ammunitions stockpile and collection group on Thursday outside the capital, Kabul.
Alam had amassed the arms over three decades of conflict, first fighting Soviet forces during 1980s and later against rival militia groups during the 1990s civil war in the capital. He also fought the hardline... (GunPolicy.org)
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16668
Afghanistan
Afghan Army Soldier Opens Fire in US Base, Killing Five
27 January 2005
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan soldier opened fire inside a U.S. military base Thursday, killing five of his Afghan comrades before another soldier gunned him down to end a shooting that a commander attributed to mental problems.
Elsewhere, Afghan police killed a suspected Taliban commander and captured his deputy in a shootout.
The U.S. military said the soldier attacked fellow Afghan National Army troops early Thursday morning in Helmand province. Another six... (GunPolicy.org)
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Afghanistan
Gun Culture Costs Lives, Including Unintentional Shootings
25 November 2004
Institute for War & Peace Reporting
MAZAR-E-SHARIF — Accidental deaths from firearms are common, but Afghans are reluctant to give up their prized guns.
"I didn't mean to kill him, but the gun went off by mistake."
That was Gul Halim's explanation for the death of his friend last week. Halim said he wanted to tease Sharif, so as a joke, he pointed his Kalashnikov at him. The gun went off, and Sharif, 27, was killed instantly.
Halim, 35, is now in prison in Samangan province. Sharif's family filed... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Institute for War & Peace Reporting
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Afghanistan
Weapon Collection Scheme Puzzles Warlords
27 October 2004
Sydney Morning Herald
In the mud-walled village of Gan Qadan, on Afghanistan's sprawling Shomali Plains, the warlord Ghulam Eishaan cannot quite believe that foreign powers are offering millions of dollars for him and his men to drop their guns.
He scratches his head at the news that a new redundancy program is being offered to make people like him swear off fighting — a lump sum or a stipend of up to $US500 ($670) a month. The program is pitched at about 550 warlords and their senior... (GunPolicy.org)
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Afghanistan
Afghans Hold on to Their Insurance Policy
18 October 2004
Guardian (UK)
KAPISA — Most people in Kareza, a dusty village two hours north of Kabul, keep animals tethered outside their mud-walled houses. Commander Mafouz keeps two Soviet tanks.
The 21-year-old fighter has grown fond of the two green hulks, which still have live shells in their barrels; so fond that he recently threatened to kill the UN team that tried to tow them away.
"My brother died after capturing these tanks from the Taliban. My father died fighting the Soviets," he... (GunPolicy.org)
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Ukraine,Cuba,Venezuela,Pérou,Sierra Leone,Afghanistan,Iraq,Yémen,Pakistan,Malaisie,Sri Lanka
Ukrainian Arms Exports End Up in a Wide Range of Conflict Zones
19 September 2004
Jane's Defence News, Web Page
Ukraine's arms exports last year stood at US$530-550m, an increase on the year before when they were officially recorded at $440m. JID's regional analyst looks at the implications of Kiev's weapons policy.
Ukrainian experts analysing this highly secretive sector of Ukraine's foreign trade believe that the volume of military exports could rise to an annual maximum of $700m. Of course, these figures do not include the large volume of unofficial trade in weapons. Since... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Jane's Defence News
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Afghanistan
Disarming of Afghani Militias Behind Schedule
9 July 2004
Institute for War & Peace Reporting
The internationally financed programme designed to disarm thousands of armed men who fought for local commanders against the Taleban and during the years of civil war in the country has fallen badly behind schedule.
The delay raises the spectre that local commanders may still lead powerful private armies by the time of the presidential election this autumn, leaving them with the capacity to intimidate local voters and even threaten the new government in Kabul.
The... (GunPolicy.org)
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Afghanistan
Where Guns Rule, Disarmament Falls Short
6 June 2004
Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Taj Mohammed picked up a gun when he was 18 and fought the Soviets, and then the Taliban, in the Panjshir Valley, the heart of the Afghan resistance against occupiers. After two decades of serving his homeland, the longtime commander is among 100,000 fighters who have been told to hand over their weapons and return to civilian life, as part of a $370-million United Nations plan to disarm Afghanistan.
But the plan, the Disarmament, Demobilization... (GunPolicy.org)
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Canada,Afghanistan
Soldier's Shooting is 13th Afghan Gun Mishap
16 February 2004
Canadian Press
KABUL — Canadian troops in Afghanistan fired their weapons by accident or through negligence a dozen times before a soldier apparently shot himself Sunday, The Canadian Press has learned.
The soldier remained in critical condition in the army hospital at Camp Julien late Sunday. He was alone with his gun in his sleeping quarters when he was shot in the face. A military investigation is underway.
"Obviously if he was alone, only two options remain open," said Col.... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Canadian Press
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Afghanistan
Afghans Trade Guns for Shot at a New Life
23 October 2003
Washington Post
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan — "Name?"
"Shah Mahmad."
"Age?"
"Thirty-four."
"Can you read?"
"No."
"Any skills?"
"Just this gun."
With such terse exchanges, repeated several hundred times during the past two days at army bases across the northern province of Kunduz, Afghan and U.N. officials launched a long-awaited national program to disarm tens of thousands of factional fighters, demobilize them from their militia units and reintegrate them into civilian life.
At... (GunPolicy.org)
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan's Gun Culture Challenge
22 February 2003
BBC News
Of all the challenges facing the new Afghanistan, taking away the guns is the greatest. As long as armed militias continue to exist, they threaten the authority of the central government of Hamid Karzai, and all attempts to create a new national army.
The United States and Japanese governments have already pledged $95m to cover the costs of disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of Afghanistan's many fighters.
Most were armed to fight the 10-year-long Soviet... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : BBC News
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Afghanistan,États-Unis
Captured Arms Will Stop Going to Afghan Militia
26 October 2002
Los Angeles Times
BAGRAM, Afghanistan — The U.S. military has stopped handing over confiscated weapons to Afghan militia fighters after criticism that it was strengthening regional warlords at the expense of the national government.
The change was made quietly after reports Oct. 16 that weapons caches were going to militia fighters traveling with American forces, U.S. military spokesman Col. Roger King said Friday. Critics worried that arming private militias would fuel fighting... (GunPolicy.org)
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16375
Afghanistan
Bulgaria Donates Arms, Equipment to Aid Afghan Army
21 August 2002
Associated Press
BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Bulgaria has donated a large number of weapons and ammunition to the Afghan National Army, an example of the international community's commitment to help the country, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
The donation, to be used for training and equipping the new army, included 400 AK-47 rifles, 8 82-mm mortars, 12 SPG-9 anti-tank missile launchers, 15 RPG-7 launchers, 8 PKM machine guns and 30 radio sets, said Col. Roger King at Bagram air... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Associated Press
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Afghanistan
Guns Offer Fast Profit for Afghans
6 August 2002
Christian Science Monitor
KABUL, Afghanistan — Abdul Zahir says he's weary of war, but artifacts from Afghanistan's violent past still clutter his rickety shop.
A carpet woven with a zigzagging pattern of assault rifles hangs from the rafters. Bottles of shampoo and cartons of cigarettes are arrayed on shelves punctuated by Soviet bayonets. Hidden beneath a cushion in a sitting area is a Czech SKS rifle. A battered Kalashnikov leans in a corner.
Mr. Zahir, who spent the last five years... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Christian Science Monitor
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Afghanistan
Despite Disarmament Order, Guns Ubiquitous on Kabul's Streets as Loya Jirga Nears
6 June 2002
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — On a side street, camouflage-clad partisans of the northern alliance play pickup volleyball, their AK-47s bouncing against their backs. On a corner in ramshackle western Kabul, a bony boy no older than 10 paces back and forth, his battered Kalashnikov dragging on the ground.
Kabulis, no strangers to war, take such displays in stride. But though far fewer weapons are on the streets than five months ago, guns are still everywhere — big guns,... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Associated Press
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Afghanistan
Crime Returning in Afghan City Where Taliban Harshness Kept Peace
5 April 2002
Associated Press
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — For God's sake, leave me! shouted Mehmood, an auto parts salesman, when two men with AK-47 assault rifles accosted him outside a mosque in a garbage-lined alley.
Mehmood spoke his last words at 8:45 p.m. Wednesday, according to witnesses. They say he then tried to snatch the gun of one assailant, whose partner stepped up and shot him in the back.
The gunmen fled, and Mehmood died in the dirt, the victim of an apparent robbery attempt. On... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Associated Press
4886
Pakistan,Afghanistan
United Nations Urges Afghanistan to Disarm
13 March 2002
Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Afghanistan's future is in jeopardy unless it undertakes a serious effort to round up the millions of weapons circulating throughout the country, the U.N.'s chief human rights official said.
Mary Robinson, who spent several days in Afghanistan last week, said the most pressing human rights issue that faces the interim government of Prime Minister Hamid Karzai is human security.
What really impressed me was that there is relative stability in... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Associated Press
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Afghanistan
Disarming Afghans Won't Be Easy
6 March 2002
Associated Press
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Police and soldiers have collected thousands of assault rifles, grenade launchers and other weapons in this southern province. But it may take rounding up millions to make a difference in the arsenal called Afghanistan.
We and the army have collected 60,000 weapons since the Taliban fell, said Brig. Gen. Mohammad Akram Khakrizewal, provincial police chief.
Across Afghanistan's 29 provinces, however, as many as 10 million weapons were believed... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Associated Press
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Afghanistan
The Gun Doesn't Develop a Country; But Disarming the Afghans Won't Be Easy
6 March 2002
Associated Press
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Police and soldiers have collected thousands of assault rifles, grenade launchers and other weapons in this southern province. But it may take rounding up millions to make a difference in the arsenal called Afghanistan.
We and the army have collected 60,000 weapons since the Taliban fell, said Brig. Gen. Mohammad Akram Khakrizewal, provincial police chief.
Across Afghanistan's 29 provinces, however, as many as 10 million weapons were believed... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Associated Press
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Afghanistan
Kabul Police Seize Arms in New Security Crackdown
29 January 2002
Reuters
KABUL — Afghan police Tuesday launched a wide security sweep of the capital, seizing illegal weapons and ordering drivers to remove tinted film from vehicle windows.
Authorities set up road blocks throughout Kabul, searching vehicles for guns and other weapons and bringing traffic to a standstill in some parts.
A statement broadcast by Afghan Radio said all firearm owners had to declare their weapons and get permission to carry them.
Afghanistan is one of the most... (GunPolicy.org)
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4873
Afghanistan
Afghans Unwilling to Give Up Weapons
21 January 2002
Chicago Tribune
BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Career militiaman Abdul Shaker fingers the trigger of his trusted Kalashnikov and fires off a verbal warning to the 60 international donors meeting this week in Tokyo to discuss rebuilding his war-torn homeland.
With terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden apparently still on the loose, the enemy Taliban still lording over part of the country, and lawlessness rampant in cities and villages, neither Shaker nor thousands of Afghans are about to... (GunPolicy.org)
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Afghanistan
Afghan Warlords Go After Guns
19 January 2002
Miami Herald
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — There was more than the usual chaos on the crowded, exhaust-choked roads of Kandahar on Friday as gunmen for the city's three warlords started their first major check for illegal weapons.
The operation was aimed at reassuring a dubious population that the U.S.-backed warlords are serious about security. Crime has been soaring, and the city teeters on the edge of anarchy.
Result Unclear
Gunmen manning the checkpoints stopped trucks,... (GunPolicy.org)
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Afghanistan
Afghans Sweep for Guns
18 January 2002
Reuters
KANDAHAR/WASHINGTON — Afghan police have fanned out in southern Kandahar to confiscate weapons from armed groups as the United States issued a global appeal to find five al Qaeda men it said could be plotting suicide attacks.
The United States assured the new Afghan interim government of its long-term support for desperately needed reconstruction even as its hunt for members of Osama bin Laden's spread deeper into countries beyond Afghanistan.
Police from Britain to... (GunPolicy.org)
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Afghanistan
Kabul Takes Steps Toward Disarming Afghan Population
14 January 2002
New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Starting Monday, people here whose jobs require them to carry guns will also have to carry government identification cards, the authorities said today. It is part of an ambitious plan by Afghanistan's interim rulers to end the ubiquity of weapons in this heavily armed society.
Disarming Afghanistan's 24 million people is critical to restoring order in the country, according to Gen. Bismullah Khan, a Northern Alliance commander who oversees... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : New York Times
4875
Afghanistan
Afghanistan Aid Project Aimed at Disarmament
3 January 2002
Japan Times
Japan plans to launch a money-for-weapons aid project in Afghanistan that will help build social infrastructure, government sources said Wednesday.
Through the project, Tokyo plans to set numerical goals of surrendered arms that, once met, would trigger official development assistance for the construction of schools, bridges and hospitals.
Specifically, Japan would donate the money to build a school in a community that collects 200 small arms.
By setting specific... (GunPolicy.org)
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4777
Afghanistan
Kabul Prepares to Disarm Gun-Loving People
27 December 2001
Reuters
Sattar loves his AK-47. For the last seven years, the 25-year old Afghan mechanic has cleaned it and oiled it with dedicated attention, and even slept with it under his pillow.
Now Afghanistan's new government wants to take it away.
It's the best gun in the world, he said proudly, unclipping a full magazine from the Russian-made semi-automatic rifle. It doesn't break, it doesn't jam and it doesn't overheat.
The administration that took office last Saturday has... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Reuters
3148
Afghanistan
Ultimatum for al-Qaida Forces
12 December 2001
Newsday (New York)
MILAWA, Afghanistan — Besieged supporters of Osama bin Laden yesterday pleaded for mercy and promised they would surrender after Afghan fighters backed by intense U.S. air strikes pinned them to a summit in the White Mountains of eastern Afghanistan, regional military commanders said here yesterday.
The whereabouts of bin Laden remained a mystery, however, and it was unclear whether the fleeing foreign Muslims in his al-Qaida terror network would keep their promise... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Newsday (New York)
4473
Afghanistan
Kandahar Aims for Gun Control
11 December 2001
Associated Press
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — As rowdy men with rifles roamed the grounds of the governor's mansion, the new chief of the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar said Tuesday he soon would rid the streets of armed groups.
The Taliban have gone and U.S. warplanes have stopped bombing the city's outskirts. But frightened residents are staying home, worried about a new kind of violence in their midst — victorious fighters who are shooting, looting and carjacking.
Everyone's... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Associated Press
4887
Afghanistan
Dressed to Kill from Kabul to Kandahar
26 November 2001
Washington Post
These days, we Americans fight our wars with weapons that seem to come from Industrial Light & Magic. Our planes are sleek and characterless, our professionals more cleanshaven technicians than warriors, their faces lit by the phosphors of a glowing screen, their language of battle techno-crisp and parsed.
It's all too Tom Clancy to be that interesting. Only a few of our thousands of men in and around Afghanistan even bother to carry rifles; the rest carry cell phones,... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Washington Post
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Afghanistan
Gun Control Policy, Jalalabad Style: He Who Grabs All the Rifles Writes the Rules
23 November 2001
New York Times
JALALABAD, Afghanistan — A sound truck rumbles down the street, blaring a message from Hazarat Ali, the new sheriff: Don't carry weapons, night or day. If you are found with a weapon, you will be punished, no questions asked.
Gun control is not in the Afghan tradition. When the Taliban's local leaders fled last week, gunmen loyal to old rebels took to the streets. Many belonged to Mr. Ali, the law-and- order minister for the Eastern Shura, which controls this city... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : New York Times
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États-Unis,Afghanistan
Arm the Afghan Women
20 November 2001
Fox News (USA)
It is commonplace to assume that toppling the Taliban will free Afghan women. But in an unstable country where soldiers celebrate conquest by raping — and where there is currently no guarantee that whatever form of government eventually assumes control will not be equally oppressive toward females — women have to protect themselves to remain free.
Afghan women need to exercise the right of self-defense, including gun ownership. They also need to be recognized as a... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Fox News (USA)
4694
Afghanistan
Alliance Promises to Maintain Order
16 November 2001
San Francisco Chronicle
Kabul, Afghanistan After roaring into Kabul and breaking an agreement with Western leaders to keep its army out of the city, the Northern Alliance appears serious about keeping the peace.
We created a security plan. There will no longer be armed men in Kabul, Younus Qanooni, the alliance's interior minister, said yesterday. Tonight, we will make an announcement on the radio. Tomorrow, no one will be allowed to have a Kalashnikov (rifle) in Kabul.
Qanooni says his... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : San Francisco Chronicle
4876
États-Unis,Afghanistan
US Sent Guns to bin Laden in 1980s
16 October 2001
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — More than a decade ago, the U.S. government sent 25 high-powered sniper rifles to a group of Muslim fighters in Afghanistan that included Osama bin Laden, according to court testimony and the guns' maker.
The rifles, made by Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Inc. of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and paid for by the government, were shipped during the collaboration between the United States and Muslims then fighting to drive the Soviet Union from... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : Associated Press
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Afghanistan
A Nation Challenged
7 October 2001
New York Times
In the late 1980's, an American-based agent for Al Qaeda, the terrorist network led by Osama bin Laden, shipped to Afghanistan 25 military-style rifles capable of shooting down helicopters, piercing armor or destroying fuel tanks from long distances, according to a report by a gun control organization.
The American-made weapons, Barrett .50-caliber rifles, were apparently used by Muslim militias trained by Mr. bin Laden to fight Soviet troops in Afghanistan, the report... (GunPolicy.org)
Lire l'article complet : New York Times
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