1.   Hundreds of heavily-beaded Taliban fighters carrying Kalashnikov rifles milled about, many of them southerners from the city of Kandahar, the original base for the Taliban.

2.   Squads of American and South Korean soldiers in full combat gear, sometimes carrying automatic rifles with fixed bayonets, jog along village streets.

3.   The sailors were wearing helmets and gas masks and carrying rifles and clubs.

4.   They were both carrying automatic rifles and grenades, the army said.

5.   About a thousand young volunteers carrying Kalashnikov rifles, part of the government program to defend the capital, paraded at the National Stadium.

6.   At least three truckloads of riot police were on standby outside the campus, along with scores of rapid response troops on motorcycles carrying automatic rifles.

7.   Two other soldiers followed the line carrying rifles.

8.   Venture down a dirt road and grim-faced guerrillas carrying automatic rifles emerge from behind bushes or houses, fingers on triggers.

9.   Wearing military vests and boots and carrying rifles, each ran as another turned and provided cover, wildly shooting an assault rifle.

10.   Journalists not far from the academy heard shooting and saw a dozen people coming from the military school carrying Kalashnikov rifles.