31.   The dirt mounds where the three Taliban soldiers were seen mark the Taliban side of the line.

32.   The front windshield was missing, making it easy to see three soldiers with rifles.

33.   The publisher said he was amazed to see no soldiers at the back entrance.

34.   There, he saw soldiers on maneuvers eating sugar-crusted chocolates.

35.   These days, Russian soldiers are seen infrequently and then only in joint Russian-Chechen patrols.

36.   To this day I remember the shock of seeing Confederate soldiers, disheveled and minus limbs, limping up the road to Tara.

37.   Treinen said that as he lay in the dark he could see soldiers standing in the doorway of the shack, watching him and Cardoso with night goggles.

38.   Two Taliban soldiers could be seen through field glasses standing on the ridge and peering at the village below.

39.   Villages across the country are seeing Taliban soldiers returning home, their guns and grievances intact.

40.   Villagers told his widow that they had seen the soldiers entering a special-forces base in Poptun run by Alpirez.