Word: checkpointed
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...money and support you received from readers of his columns?MB: The money helped give a financial basis for my work. It was a great help—the [elementary] school is going to be upgraded to a middle school soon, there’s a police checkpoint outside my home, we’ve been able to buy land for a hospital. All these new projects were the result of his readers...
...basic facts of the battle are not in dispute. Some time between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. on April 17 a well-known Iraqi army checkpoint at a prominent Adhamiya intersection came under intense fire from insurgent forces in the town. Other Iraqi units responded and a blazing battle ensued. American advisors from a Military Transition Team (MiTT) with the 101st Airborne, embedded within the battalion under attack, were called out and were soon fighting for their lives. A coalition quick-reaction force was summoned...
...Though the insurgents admit to attacking the checkpoint identified by the Americans as ground zero, they claim they did not start the battle. Local clerics, municipal officials, community leaders and the insurgents themselves all say the hostilities were started by a raid from a "death squad" backed by the Ministry of Interior (MOI) - carloads of men in MOI uniforms and irregular forces in civilian clothes who entered Adhamiya after passed through the Iraqi army checkpoints. Indeed, sources within one prominent Shi'ite militia say their men were part of the Adhamiya raid, which was targeting top insurgent leaders holed...
...shooting of a news photographer, protesters, many of them middle-class families fed up with widespread crime, have been marching since early Wednesday. The brothers, all teenagers ranging in age from 12 to 17, and their chauffeur were found dead late Tuesday, after they were kidnapped at a phony checkpoint on Feb. 23. by men dressed in police uniforms. The victims were found only one week after a prominent Italian-born business owner was murdered after being abducted by people also dressed as police. The Mayor of Caracas responded by appointing a new police chief, and interior minister Jesse Chacon...
...right. Iraqi army troops set checkpoints on the main thoroughfares in and out of Sadr City, but they are powerless in the face of the Mahdi Army. "They do nothing. They can't even stop a vehicle," says a member of a separate unit of the fractious militia as he speeds past one of the checkpoints. A pickup truck overflowing with gunmen toting AK-47s roars up from behind. Their shirts are emblazoned with the name of one of the country's most formidable armed groups: MAHDI ARMY, PROTECTION COMMITTEE, 2ND BRIGADE. As they approach the army checkpoint...