21.   Officers holding rifles and wearing SWAT gear searched back yards.

22.   Soldiers held rifles but their numbers were smaller than in past years, and they did not appear to be needed.

23.   Teen-age boys swagger down the streets of Kabul, carelessly holding Kalashnikov rifles.

24.   The entrances to the embassy and to adjoining offices were guarded by armed police holding automatic rifles.

25.   They wore camouflaged body armor and held automatic rifles at the ready position, aimed upward.

26.   They posed for the camera together holding rifles, and Naima el Abed beseeched other Palestinian mothers to encourage their children to follow suit.

27.   Two months after her abduction, she was photographed holding a rifle during an SLA bank robbery in San Francisco.

28.   I saw him walking calmly, without hurrying, holding a rifle.

29.   A Kalashnikov assault rifle was held loosely in his left.