| You have the rifle you brought with you to defend yourself from looters, and you have a magazine of ammunition. |
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| The looters are using makeshift boats made of pieces of styrofoam to access. |
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| My family completely lost its home, and all its contents to looters and pillagers. |
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| The looters retuned the next day, stealing the library's most valuable manuscripts and books. |
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| Evacuation attempts were disrupted by gunfire and armed looters ruled the streets. |
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| Bandits and looters continue to bring down pylons carrying high voltage cables out in the desert road. |
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| The next blow came in the conflict's immediate aftermath, as looters ran unchecked through Baghdad. |
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| They also reportedly joined looters who pillaged other lucrative targets like office buildings, stores, and private homes. |
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| Hospitals, struggling to care for casualties, have been hit by looters stealing equipment, medicines and even beds. |
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| As the troops fell back, looters on bicycles braved the continuing shellfire. |
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| In other districts, vigilantes set up roadblocks and patrolled neighbourhoods to deter thieves and looters. |
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| It becomes clear these men are self-styled vigilantes who are attempting to intimidate the looters and take back the goods they have stolen. |
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| With the additional threat of armadas and independent looters, keeping the American riches flowing into Spain became a very complex problem. |
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| We are the only people back in at present, and the area could be seen as easy pickings for looters. |
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| Ultimately, when we talk about government, we are talking about a bunch of ignorant bullies, looters, and plunderers. |
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| The makeshift chariots were pulled by Iraqi horses commandeered from looters in the area. |
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| In some neighbourhoods, residents erected street barricades of tiles, huge rocks and sandbags to keep looters out. |
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| Thousands of irreplaceable treasures were stolen by looters from the Iraqi national museum during the war. |
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| Crowds of looters waited for it to beach firmly on a sand bank so that the serious business of stripping it bare could begin. |
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| A behemoth called Dead Reckoning, a 70 ft long armoured truck provides cover and support for the looters. |
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| Instead they spent hours playing cat and mouse, temporarily chasing away the looters. |
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| As such, helicopter borne sections will swoop down on suspect vehicles in pursuit of looters and the illegal oil trade. |
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| They had been in fear of their lives as they scavenged for food while the authorities operated a shoot-to-kill policy against looters. |
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| He bragged about murdering looters during Hurricane Katrina, though that was never substantiated. |
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| The Euphronios krater had allegedly been pillaged by tomb looters in Italy. |
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| This demand drives the activities of looters and intermediaries of all types around the world. |
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| His family went and stayed in drier accommodation nearby, but Mr Hernández stayed with the house to deter looters. |
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| The UN experts even formulated recommendations which led the competent organs of the UN to take resolutions to sanction all the main looters. |
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| More money is generated in tourist dollars, for whole communities, than the individual looters could have dreamt of. |
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| After the war we watched as looters ransacked and burned the Iraqi National Museum. |
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| Ironically, the torture device was brought to TIME's attention by a group of looters who had been stripping the compound of anything of value. |
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| They were so good at their work that the stairs collapsed, marooning other looters on the first storey of the police station. |
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| In Kinshasa, hundreds of protesters torched a town hall, while several inmates escaped from a prison and looters made off with police weapons. |
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| In the country's third city, Valencia, looters ransacked an outlet belonging to the Daka electricals chain. |
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| The common factor in all these rumours is the demonisation of the Congo Tutsis, shown to be invaders, looters and traitors. |
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| This is why the room of murals survived for 2,000 years before looters tunneled into it. |
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| But where the fighting is not going on, looters have taken over, terrorising the city's inhabitants. |
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| The city centre and suburbs, which had been filled with roaming groups of looters 24 hours earlier, were eerily still. |
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| Following the demonstration the school was targeted by looters who set fire to a library and stole computers and laptops, among other items. |
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| There's a lot to enjoy here: as good for newcomers to its genre as hardened looters. |
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| Their once grand mansions stand derelict, the basements dotted with gaping holes where looters tunnelled to look for gold. |
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| So, this is a very difficult situation, and they are trying to stop people like the price gougers and perhaps the looters from making things even worse. |
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| Before preservationists could put a stop to it, he and other looters had raided and destroyed precious relics buried at the site. |
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| I can hardly think of a worse fate for any society than to be led into the future by the political class of gangsters, marauders, looters, and liars. |
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| For while eager looters in the neighborhood were watching, so were Bobby Green, lei Yuille, Terri Barnett, and Titus Murphy. |
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| Over two days in August, rioters and looters rampaged through stores and threw stones. |
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| Now to compare ISIS radicals and Ferguson looters is not to say that they are the same in all respects. |
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| But, it is correct to say most of our leaders in Naija are not leaders but looters. |
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| While looting the stores the looters took the opportunity for revenge by destroying what they didn't steal. |
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| In January 1994, when the United Nations agency Habitat bricked up the museum's windows and repaired the doors, the move only appeared to encourage more looters to break in. |
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| Gangs of looters or highwaymen were likely kill and rob people. |
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| Make our government safe for the wiretappers, environmental rapists, corporate looters and petroleum pirates. |
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| Archaeological monuments dating from Hellenic and Roman times, monasteries and churches containing priceless relics handed down through the centuries are now defenceless against marauding looters. |
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| Before, looters would only do scuba diving. |
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| In the coastal resort of Hammamet, looters trashed Mr Materi's villa and slaughtered his pet tiger. More disturbingly, reports emerged of attacks by suspected saboteurs and snipers, with gun battles erupting in the capital. |
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| Obviously the Army brass hats insist on a softly, softly approach when dealing with looters etc in Iraq. |
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| According to its own officials, MIBA has neither the resources to keep the looters away nor the support of the Government to respond appropriately to this threat. |
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| This head had been shot off, and apparently taken away by looters. |
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| We'll have to make sure they get fully destroyed to discourage looters. |
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| Whoops rewarded the contributions of Pauline Pearce, the community worker who walked into London's riots last summer on her way home from work and then did her best to dissuade looters. |
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| No doubt it was also disadvantaged young people who kicked Jean-Jacques Lechenadec to death, but the policeman who protected citizens and property from looters risks being put in prison. |
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| Apart from the oldest part of the archives which had been previously moved, looters piled books in corners, poured fuel over them, and set them alight so that only ashes remained. |
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| They also confirmed that when, on 13 August, Russian forces set up checkpoints in the area and intervened against looters, the looting and arson dropped dramatically. |
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| In the wake of the anarchy which engulfed Albania in March 1997, looters seized several hundred thousand weapons and some 20 000 tonnes of ammunition and caused explosions in many storage depots across the country. |
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| Fending off looters was another challenge. |
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| An elderly colonel in Woolton rushed out of his house in his nightgown, firing an old elephant gun in the air as a warning shot to imagined invaders and would-be looters. |
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