Ziman shipped the replicas, plus around 1,000 hand-crafted rounds of fake ammunition, to Los Angeles, where they were auctioned to raise money for Human Rights Watch and Control Arms.
The subject matter is not pleasant, but the singers are stunning: the girls in white lace headscarves and beautifully embroidered purple dresses; the boys with fur hats, daggers and fake ammunition strapped to their coats.
James Ross, the legal and policy director for Human Rights Watch, said using fake weapons and ammunition as bait to attract and kill insurgents creates blurry ethical boundaries for soldiers fighting in Iraq, and great risk to civilians who are not legal targets in war.
Lopez Astudillo, also known as "El Cabo Gil," was arrested on Wednesday while carrying a fake ID and ammunition, said Mexico's national security commissioner.
When he was arrested police found a litany of evidence in his office including a receipt and debt list, ammunition, fake identification, a brick of cannabis, cash, burner phones, and, keeping to the stereotype, a signed poster of The Sopranos.
The next day, Johnson was persuaded by the brother, Steve Gillian, to use a fake ID to buy ammunition at Wal-Mart.
Newspapers in Argentina and the UK ran stories identifying Wawman as the "Barbie Bandit" mastermind of the gang, illustrated with photographs of guns, ammunition and fake police uniforms seized during the raids.
Police searches in Verviers, near the German border, recovered trappings of a terrorist plot: four AK-47 rifles, ammunition, explosives, fake documents, cellphones, walkie-talkies, police uniforms and large sums of money, prosecutors said.
The Germans identified that the Partisan 13th Assault Division was using the Drežnica valley as a huge armoury, hiding captured Italian arms and ammunition in villages, basements, and even in fake graves in cemeteries.
Historians, other Holocaust survivors and those - Jewish or not - who never want the Hitler years to be repeated were horrified that one fake concentration camp story would only give Holocaust deniers ammunition.
He said the fake police officer ordered people to come closer, then pulled weapons and ammunition from a bag and started shooting.
