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186 Even if marking and tracing Johan Peleman, “Tracing Arms Flows,” presentation given at the international experts meeting on tracing illicit small arms and light weapons, organized by the GRIP and the European Cost programme, Brussels, October 22, 2004.

189 One of the groups assigned to the area Gordon Dillow, “Battle Transforms Fresh Faced Troops,” Orange County Register , March 23, 2003, in conjunction with Department of Defense Press Releases.

193 As we’ve seen in many other countries Anna Badkhen, “Gun Market Thrives on Dread,” San Francisco Chronicle , March 26, 2003. See also Small Arms Survey 2004 (Geneva: Graduate Institute of International Studies, Oxford University Press, 2004), 48.

196 Early reports from the front Andrew England, “US Troops Using Confiscated Iraqi AK-47s,” Associated Press, August 25, 2003.

199 Members of Congress wrote letters Ted Strideland, letter to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, October 1, 2003.

202 Coalition Provisional Authority officials William Matthews, “U.S. Officials Rap Rifle Buy for Iraqi Corp,” Defense News , December 22, 2003.

202 Even the Russians were angry C. J. Chivers, “Who’s A Pirate? Russia Points Back at the U.S.,” New York Times , July 24, 2004.

203 The story took an even stranger turn Northern District of California indictment, U.S. District Attorney, May 23, 1996. See also Jonathan S. Landay, “Chinese Firm Linked to Smuggled AK-47s Picked to Supply Iraqi Army,” Knight Ridder Newspapers, April 27, 2005.

205 With the continuing violence in Iraq Oliver Poole, “The Iraqi GP: Stethoscope and AK-47,” The Age , May 19, 2005.

212 Years earlier, Kalashnikov had felt Kalashnikov, From a Stranger’s Doorstep , 444.

213 Viktor was more outspoken and bitter “Kalashnikov Inventor Wants Peace; Recalls Soviets Nostalgically,” Agence France-Presse, May 7, 2000.

215 Even commercial high-end artists and designers joined the AK design movement E-mail to author from Starck representative.

215 The founders of the online photography magazine AK47 E-mail to author from Joerg Diekmann.

216 The fact that AKs enjoyed Dave Graham, “Kalashnikov Sets Sights on Superbrand,” Reuters, February 17, 2003.

217 Still, the AK mystique grew stronger Playboy , January 2004.

220 The Kalashnikov 41-proof vodka “Russian Routlette,” Growing Business , June 2004.

222 In interviews after the reception Vicky Allan, “Kalashnikov Calls New Kinds of Shots,” Sunday Herald (Scotland), September 26, 2004. See also “Kalashnikov Launches Liquid Weapon,” CNN.com, September 20, 2004. (Notes 129-132 include material from an author phone interview with Florey.)

223 Florey argued that the Kalashnikov brand was based John Ness, “Swords into Vodka,” Newsweek International , November 22, 2004.

224 Florey put Kalashnikov out front to help “Britain’s Kalashnikov Vodka to Change Name after Anti-Violence Campaign,” Reuters, January 15, 2005. See also Adam Jones, “Lobby Sets Sights on Kalashnikov Vodka,” Financial Times , October 26, 2004.

224 The group’s assessment was both good and bad news Report of Panel Meeting, January, 21, 2005.

226 That same year Billy Hidge, “Killing Machine,” Stuff , April, 2005

230 Kalashnikov lobbied heavily See Shilin and Cutshaw, Legends and Realities of the AK , 144.

234 In 2002 Kate Connolly, “Kalashnikov: ‘I wish I’d made a Lawn-mower,’” Guardian (UK), July 30, 2002.

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