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...late that what she reached for was a red flag. Or you see a car approach. Chad Reiber, an Army ranger, says: "I engaged a vehicle with a 50-caliber machine gun and blew it up. It was a pretty big explosion. I learned they had gasoline and a checkpoint book. I remember laughing after I blew it up and then driving by and seeing burned flesh dropping off, on fire. None of us even talked about it. After it happened it was done, it was gone...
...David Weigel of ReasonOnline.com, in an astute piece about Death of a President piquantly titled "Other Than That, Mrs. Bush, How Was the Film?", mentions Nicholson Baker's 2003 novel Checkpoint as one of many novels about a plan to kill Bush. The novelist Richard Condon never lacked for poli-scifi cojones - in Emperor of America he blew up the White House - but his specialty was death-of-a-president fantasies. In The Manchurian Candidate, published in 1959 and filmed three years later, he postulated the assassination of a presidential nominee by a Joe McCarthy type (the right-wingers...
...Deciding if your Juicy Tube is a gel or a solid is up to whoever is tending the screening line when you walk through. The TSA website says "some solid or powdered cosmetics are permitted past the checkpoint; however, this is left to the discretion of the security officer." But if you don't want to risk losing it, put it in your checked luggage...
Recently the highway has become less deadly--perhaps the only place in Baghdad that can make such a claim. The once daily attacks along the road have given way to occasional strikes, like the twin suicide bombings in May that killed 14 Iraqis near Checkpoint 1, where arriving travelers meet transport waiting to take them into the city. U.S. officials claim the decline in attacks as a victory for military strategy, attributing it to the greatly increased visibility of Iraqi soldiers along the road. My contacts in the insurgency offer an alternative, equally plausible explanation: there are fewer U.S. patrols...
...blasts--one a car bomb, the other a suicide bomber--killed 16 people near some small shops where journalists emerging from the Green Zone on hot afternoons stop to buy cold sodas. Although the Green Zone is one of the most protected places in Iraq, the entrance known as Checkpoint 3 is one of the most dangerous. Last summer I and several other TIME staff members were fortunate to be just out of harm's way when a suicide bomber struck a kebab stand near the shops. The blast took the bomber's head clear off his body and sent...