A visitor looks at a Bulgarian-made submachineguns at Hemus Defence Equipment exhibition in the city of Plovdiv, some 120 km east from the capital Sofia on May 26, 2004. Some 120 companies from 20 countries took part in the international exhibition. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov SN/CRB

While other police officers make mass arrests of protestors, a heavily armed King County (Metropolitan Seattle) Police officer stands guard with a submachinegun a few blocks away from World Trade Organization (WTO) conference in downtown Seattle, December 1. Widespread rioting on November 30 crippled downtown Seattle businesses, however, the second day of the conference started on schedule.

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Milan Panic, President of U.S.-based ICN Pharmaceuticals and a former Yugoslav prime minister, gestures during a news conference February 6. Serbian police armed with submachineguns occupied the Yugoslav unit of ICN in Belgrade on Saturday and company officials said the move appeared to be timed to disrupt Kosovo peace talks.

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