TASHKENT: A witness in the trial of 15 men charged in the May uprising in eastern Uzbekistan said Wednesday the rebels had several US and German-made guns. Mikhail Rudakov, a convicted murderer who was released after insurgents stormed a prison in the city of Andijan on May 13, said he had been used by rebels as a weapons expert. Rudakov said insurgents had 250-300 automatic rifles, many pistols, some land mines, and several types of grenades. He said most of the weapons were old Soviet-made ones, but that he also saw one German Lunger assault rifle and two US M-16 rifles. Uzbek authorities have alleged that the insurgents had foreign support and the testimony that they had Western weapons appeared to hint at corroborating that contention. Human rights groups say the testimony given by defendants in the carefully orchestrated trial has been squeezed out of them through torture.