1.   Asked about the armed gunmen, he gave a thin smile.

2.   Both HEROs escaped injury in the armed gunmen cases.

3.   A spokesman for the Achekzais in Quetta said that armed gunmen had set up a half-dozen roadblocks on the main highway leading to Kandahar.

4.   DPS officials said that with dozens of officers responding to the rural area and an armed gunman hiding in the woods, it took time to unravel what happened.

5.   Four foreign journalists were kidnapped and shot Monday by armed gunmen on the highway halfway from here to Kabul, three witnesses said.

6.   Four foreign journalists in Afghanistan were murdered Monday by armed gunmen on the highway halfway between Jalalabad and Kabul.

7.   In Bethlehem, gunfire and Israeli stun grenades exploded around the Church of the Nativity, which is occupied by scores of heavily armed Palestinan gunmen.

8.   Israel says they were all armed gunmen, and has apologized for shooting the monk.

9.   It may seem churlish to insist on that point at a checkpoint with armed gunmen of unknown affiliation.