He was carrying an Army-issue rifle and was wearing military gear that he said had been taken from Israeli soldiers.

At every firefight they took weapons from dead soldiers and armed themselves.

In the battle, the insurgents tried to take the control of the city from the allies, mainly Danish, Lithuanian and British soldiers.

They were irregulars, armed and clothed fragmentarily with junk taken from real soldiers who were newly dead.

Rifles captured from the enemy or taken from hospitalized soldiers were stacked for use by troops in the trench lines.

All over the city, citizens, women as well as the men, are reinforcing the trenches, taking the rifles from dead or wounded soldiers.

Iraqi officials said such a militia could ultimately take control of Iraqi cities from American soldiers.

Sometimes weapons were taken from individual German soldiers accosted in the street.

We had in our possession 23 assault rifles and some explosives, taken from soldiers a couple of days before.

Cheyenne participants gave similar testimony: the Indians' firepower was increased through carbines taken from dead soldiers and ammunition recovered from the saddlebags of captured horses.