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2007-01-13 Bangladesh

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Posted by Steve White 2007-01-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Underground operatives surfaced and got replanted permanently. Go RAB!

Posted by Phineter Thraviger 2007-01-13 10:07|| 2007-01-13 10:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Local residents say gunrunners mainly smuggle four types of firearms into Bangladesh: Kamare or Chhakka, pistols made by blacksmiths or in iron workshops or local engineering workshops; Auto-Nakka, a revolver with a nine-room magazine; Double-shutter gun, used to hit a short-range target by pulling half the bolt and a distant target by pulling the full bolt; and seven-gear sawn-off rifle.

Posted by KBK 2007-01-13 10:27|| 2007-01-13 10:27|| Front Page Top

#3 thanks for the info KBK i never thought you could make a living smuggling onions. Only in banga i guess cos it wouldn't work on my street corner

Posted by pihkalbadger 2007-01-13 10:44|| 2007-01-13 10:44|| Front Page Top

#4 bribes to 'mammonish law-enforcers'

Damn KBK that article is a goldmine. Needs to be posted in full.

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-13 10:57|| 2007-01-13 10:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Go for it!

Posted by KBK 2007-01-13 11:45|| 2007-01-13 11:45|| Front Page Top

#6 never thought you could make a living smuggling onions

You can't. They're smuggling sacks to the shrimp lords.

Posted by KBK 2007-01-13 12:52|| 2007-01-13 12:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Some 5,000 of the landless, locally called as Bhumihins, settled on about 6,500 bighas of government land in Kaliganj and Debhata upazilas in Satkhira in 1998 and shrimp farms owners say they have taken 'shrimp piracy' as a living.
Very interesting. Bumpkins living in the Bighouses...in the loose translation.

Posted by Phineter Thraviger 2007-01-13 19:29|| 2007-01-13 19:29|| Front Page Top

#8 A seven-gear rifle? Are they all syncho'ed? And is first a real grannie gear or are the top ones killer overdrives? Gearheads the world over want to know.....

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-01-13 20:39|| 2007-01-13 20:39|| Front Page Top

#9 LOL USN, ret! **==

Posted by Phineter Thraviger 2007-01-13 21:32|| 2007-01-13 21:32|| Front Page Top

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