At the halfway point of the UN climate change talks in Montreal, environmental groups are struggling a bit to work out who the latest villain is in this long-running drama. Usually it is very straightforward. The US is generally a dead cert for the award of "Fossil of the Day", reviled by green groups for its rejection of the Kyoto protocol, closely followed by Saudi Arabia for what are regarded as obstructive tactics
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(Sacramento) - Attorney General Bill Lockyer today called the illegal gun trafficking at California gun shows a real and present threat to public safety, pointing to an array of prohibited weapons that included machine-gun components and a rocket launcher with projectile purchased recently by undercover agents
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Swaziland is not a supply country for weapons nor is it an end-user to the extent that South Africa is. It has, instead, acted largely as a transit country as weapons have moved from Mozambique through Swaziland, with which it shares a border, into the provinces of South Africa. The end of the war in Mozambique saw an upsurge in the number of weapons seized by the Swazi police, many of which initially were AK-47 assault rifles though later, from 1994 onwards, handguns appeared. However, in comparison to the number of weapons being seized by South African police along borders with Mozambique, the number of illicit weapons seized by the Swazi police is very small. It seems that there could be two possible hypotheses: either poor policing of border areas is allowing large numbers of weapons to pass through Swaziland or the number of weapons being moved through is smaller than estimated. Oosthuysen, however, disagrees with the latter hypothesis, stating, "[t]he route from Mozambique through Swaziland into KwaZulu-Natal has been one of the
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