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Gen. Gahendra Shamsher Jung Bahadur Rana liked to invent stuff. He was an artificer and armourer too. He basically reverse engineered and altered stuff from all over the world to suit his army's style of fighting, like importing cars and modding them into technicals, tinkering with the design of machine guns, etc. He took apart a British Martini-Henry Mark II, one of the commonest rifles around at the time and made this one. In Nepal it's also still called the Gahendra-Martini. This is basically
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Yes, essentially the same weapon, just locally manufactured. I stumbled around for quite a while on that on. The tiny writing on the cocking lever was the key.
[AM Thinker] Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, is 86 years old. Against all odds, Abbas has been able to control the PLO and the Palestinian Authority with an iron fist. To this day, he remains "El kol fil kol," an Arabic term for a man in control of everything. Nonetheless, Abbas's health has been failing more rapidly lately.
In addition, Abbas's demeanor has changed. He seems distant from the Palestinian Authority areas. He spends most of his time in Amman, Jordan, under the pretext of receiving medical treatment.
Abbas is on his last legs. Yet he is not preparing any of his sons to be his successor, not even his well educated millionaire businessman son, Mazen, who is also a Canadian citizen.
So the question is, who will replace him?
A number of names come to mind, but there is no one who is a natural, who would command the support of the power brokers or the Palestinians.
Suggested names, with details at the link:
Hussein Al-Sheikh, 62, secretary general of the Executive Committee of the PLO
General Majid Farraj, in his 50s, the head of Palestinian Intelligence.
Jibril Rajoub, the former head of the Palestinian FBI, the Preventive Security Force, and a member of the PLO's Central Committee
Mohammad Dahlan served as Arafat's security chief and remains influential to this day
Other names such as Abbas Zaki, Salam Fayyad, Ahmad Qurai, Nabil Shaath, and Nasser Al Qudwa, Arafat's nephew, come to mind, but none of them has the power, influence, muscle, or popularity to keep the P.A. intact
When Abbas goes, since there is no acceptable heir apparent, chaos will ensue. The P.A. areas will fall into disarray. Hamas will to try to infiltrate the West Bank further, as it has been doing slowly but surely.
To avoid such an outcome, Israel will have to take full control of Oslo-delineated Areas A, B and C. That will mean the end of the Palestinian Authority.
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