21.   The witnesses also said they saw Taliban fighters preparing for battle, shaking their heads from side to side and grunting religious chants before setting off.

22.   They see Croatian fighters as heroes and patriots, not criminals.

23.   They said they saw the fighters being transported in Burundian army vehicles.

24.   Witnesses there reported seeing rebel fighters in tank and truck convoys heading towards the valley.

25.   Witnesses said they saw Taliban fighters kneeling in prayer behind their mortars and heavy weapons before sweeping into the city.

26.   Fighters could be seen in the hills around the village of Serzhen Yurt, which was deserted Wednesday as residents fled before the advancing Russians.

27.   It is the Iraqi Kurd villagers who are caught in the middle, and have seen PKK fighters whom they helped in the past turn on them.

28.   Malu told a ULIMO-J commander that he had seen few fighters carrying arms in the town.

29.   No fighters could be seen in the village and there was no outgoing fire from the area shelled.

30.   The hotel lies in territory usually held by the NPFL, but where fighters from the Krahn ethnic group were seen during intense fighting on Sunday.