1.   The bearded soldiers were holding the decapitated heads of Serbian men.

2.   The bearded soldiers, bearing automatic rifles, strode over.

3.   Bearded Taliban soldiers rampaged through the archives and burned hundreds of films.

4.   But Wednesday, bearded Taliban soldiers with Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers slung over their shoulders hiked through the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains aiming for the Panjshir Valley.

5.   Dozens of protesters marched down a busy thoroughfare in the central Indian city of Bhopal carrying an effigy of a bearded Taliban soldier.

6.   Dozens of protesters marched down a busy thoroughfare in the central Indian city of Bhopal on Tuesday carrying an effigy of a bearded Taliban soldier.

7.   Hours later, the jail door burst open, and the aid workers were frightened when bearded soldiers rushed toward them.

8.   Their job done, the dozen bearded soldiers of the Taliban religious army laid their assault rifles on the marble entrance and knelt in prayer.