Every one has 20-feet-high walls, built of sun-baked mud studded with pebbles to withstand machinegun bursts.

ECONOMIST: Waziristan

While the stand-off continued I watched a policeman standing in the shade of a date palm, fidgeting with his sub-machinegun.

BBC: Meeting the king of simmering Bahrain

Mr Brown visited Iraq on the same tour (and managed to get himself photographed in a pose that suggested he was manning a helicopter machinegun).

ECONOMIST: Gordon Brown in Israel

As the sand was pumped on to an Oceanside beach, however, the navy was embarrassed: it found two 81mm mortar rounds and some machinegun bullets in the dredged sand.

ECONOMIST: California��s beaches

They were nevertheless defeated at El Caney and the San Juan Heights, in engagements in which decisive parts were played by artillery, the Gatling gun (an early machinegun) and three regiments of black Americans.

ECONOMIST: THE WAR OF 1898

In both cases the player can lock-on to nearby enemies, fire two core weapons (a machinegun and the equivalent of a grenade launcher), and unleash a couple of charge attacks that are as explosive as they are damaging.

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