Word: checkpointed
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Next week, Specialist Mario Lozano of the New York National Guard will be tried for murder in absentia in Italy. The charge: the killing of Nicola Calipari, an Italian intelligence officer, at a Baghdad checkpoint on March 4, 2005, where Lozano was stationed as a gunner. Calipari had been escorting Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist just freed from kidnappers, taking her to the airport and onward to Italy...
...Since the incident, the U.S. and Italy have come up with opposing conclusions: the Americans clearing Lozano of wrongdoing, the Italians finding fault with the way the checkpoint was set up, with the warnings their agents in the car received and disputing American accounts of the car's speed. Sgrena has since written a book about the incident entitled Friendly Fire and alleged that she and the Italians were specifically targeted and that the U.S. investigation was a cover-up, But the story has rarely been told from the perspective of Lozano, the grandson of an Italian immigrant. Now, however...
...prove that they understand the complexities of Iraq and care about the continuing tragedy, mawkish sentimentality and ham-fisted didacticism join forces to drain the project of all dramatic coherence. After curfew in Samarra, in Iraq’s volatile Sunni triangle, two Iraqi teenagers approach an American checkpoint. Unarmed and submissive, the teenagers reflexively put up their hands—and the Americans respond by throwing the both off the bridge. One drowns. It’s a shocking incident, and the film sets out to unravel its repercussions. The boy’s funeral, complete with stilted expository...
...doctors, who must run the daily gauntlet of Israeli security checks. A tourist who wants to go from Bethlehem to Jerusalem can make the journey by car in 15 minutes. I must go on foot and, depending on the mood of the young Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint, the trip can take an hour, two, three. Or sometimes, if there's a security alert, they simply close down the checkpoint to all Palestinians. Peace Be With...
...Israeli general once told me, "Jamil, these checkpoints are nothing but an invitation for the terrorists to try another way." In fact, in all the years of crossing, I've never seen the Israelis catch a terrorist or a suicide bomber at the Bethlehem checkpoint. So what is the security value of this exercise...