11.   From the roof of a hangar they watched U.S. paratroopers with blackened faces filing aboard transport planes for the night drop behind enemy lines.

12.   Weary soldiers with blackened faces sat atop light tanks or shuffled alongside, smoking cigarettes.

13.   Waves of demonstrators wore blackened faces and leaves in their hair as signs of protest.

14.   Weary soldiers with blackened faces and in greasy uniforms sat atop light tanks or were smoking cigarettes and shuffling their muddy boots on the wet tarmac.

15.   Waves of demonstrators wore blackened faces and leaves in their hair as traditional war symbols.

16.   Waves of demonstrators, with blackened faces and leaves in their hair as traditional war symbols, marched through otherwise deserted downtown streets Tuesday towards barricaded government offices.

17.   The soldiers continued the ritual by rubbing large quantities of soot onto his already blackened face.

18.   Thieves have also been paraded with blackened faces through Kabul by the Taliban, as a reminder to the people that crime does not pay.