15 Killed in Attack in Kabul

Foxy

New member
Fortunately, 11 of them were bad buys.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20020807/ap_on_re_as/afghan_fighting_6

However, this caught my eye:

The attack on the Kabul army garrison began about 7 a.m. when the guerrillas, armed with AK-47 semiautomatic rifles, rushed the post in the Bagram-i District, about six miles south of the center of the capital, said the local police commander, Col. Haji Rashid.




Is the newspaper reporter serious that they are using semi-autos instead of full-auto AK's; does he simply not know the difference, except that AK's are eeeeevil, and so are semi-automatic guns; or are all of those terrorists buying guns at our gunshows finally getting them to the front?
 

Tamara

Moderator Emeritus
He's heard the AK-47 described as a "semiautomatic assault rifle" every night on the teeeveeee since 1988 or so; of course he doesn't know any better.
 
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