Word: checkpoint
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LONDON: Deadly Joyride An appeal by a British soldier convicted of murder while on active duty in Northern Ireland has sparked a fierce debate. Four years ago, Private Lee Clegg and other paratroopers fired on a car that had failed to stop at a West Belfast checkpoint. The driver, Martin Peake, 17, and a passenger, Karen Reilly, 18--joyriders, rather than I.R.A. terrorists -- were killed. In 1993 a judge convicted Clegg of murder on the grounds that he fired the bullet that killed Reilly after the car had passed the checkpoint and the soldiers were no longer in danger...
...American Special Forces soldier was killed by a former Haitian army officer at a road checkpoint outside the Haitian coastal town of Gonaives, the first hostile casualty since 21,000 U.S. troops arrived in the country last September. Another U.S. soldier was wounded in the shootout before the gunman was shot and killed...
...soldier and a Haitian civilian were killed in an exchange of gunfire at a checkpoint in the Haitian village of Gonaives this morning. Another soldier was also injured when a pickup truck rammed into the checkpoint and the passenger came out shooting. U.S. troops killed the attacker. Although the incident appears isolated, TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson says, it has ended a "long string of good luck" in the U.S. peacekeeping operation. "There's been a sense of, how long can this last? But it looks like the American military has responded quite forcefully."U.S. troops will transfer authority...
Some of the members of Arafat's own security forces were demoralized by their comrades' actions. Said a long-faced soldier at a checkpoint in Gaza City: "Today we proved to all the Palestinians that what Hamas says about us is true: that we are an instrument in the hands of the Israelis." Eyewitnesses at the Palestine Mosque told of a police major who, upon seeing his colleagues open fire, tore off his cap and jacket and cried to the crowd, "I am not one of them...
...handguns and $300 for mortars, only 280 guns were collected. But up north, hundreds of weapons were spontaneously dumped at the feet of U.S. troops. In the manner of a religious offering, crowds brought in everything from vintage World War II rifles to ceremonial swords. At one American checkpoint, people even turned over two green hoods used to cover prisoners' heads during beatings. "They just hand them over and leave," said an amazed Special Forces officer. "They don't want guns turned on them again, I guess. The people are trying...