1. Just this week, police sappers thwarted a car-bomb attack outside the town of Beit Shemesh

2. Along with the still-dominant heavy cavalry, armies often included mounted and infantry crossbowmen, as well as sappers and engineers.

3. BOMB-DISPOSAL robot creeps up a flyover in the west Baghdad suburb of Ghazaliya, as American army sappers fiddle with their communications devices.

4. During November, New Zealand sappers drove a mine under Hill 60 creating a large crater at the summit though the Allies did not occupy it.