I have shot over 5000 rds with my Russian rifle and it's never jammed. Perhaps someone needs to tell the religious nut bags that they need to actually CLEAN their rifles once in a while?...
I guess that I was thinking along the same sort of lines.
A jammed AK47?
Besides being cheap, easy and quick to make, I always thought that a key attribute of the gun was that it had such large tolerance that even under harsh conditions it was very reliable.
Assuming that this guy did go to somewhere in the middle east for training, you would think (and maybe I am wrong) that some from of basic maintenance was covered.
Also what happened with the hand gun? Why did he use a knife on Spencer (it was him with the knife cuts right?) and not his hand gun?
I think that it might take a week or so for a complete story to emerge.
