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...February 2002, Milwaukee, Wis. Incident: A local television reporter passed a briefcase containing 10 banned items through the Milwaukee County Courthouse x-ray security checkpoint a total of 12 times in two days. A videotape showed a security officers looking away from the monitor as some items went through Security: Authorities said they were shocked by the "gaping" holes in their security system...
...teenage soldiers at the checkpoint call their outpost 25 miles outside Monrovia the God Bless You Gate--because, says Sergeant Kofa Mailer, 17, "when you pass by this gate, God bless you." The gate is made from a long reed and festooned with human bones. A femur hangs beside a pelvis and near a piece of a vertebra. The guards at the God Bless You Gate are members of a Small Boys Unit, government-employed child soldiers. They say they are generals, lieutenants and sergeants, but even with their AK-47s, they look more like schoolchildren. Their leader, General James...
...Mamabaidullah's office overlooks one of this battle's front lines: Spin Boldak's main border checkpoint, a notorious smugglers' route from the Pakistani town of Chaman. Entering or leaving the country often requires no papers at all. "It's impossible to control," says Khalid Pashtoon, spokesman for Kandahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai. It's also the Taliban's gateway to revenge. Following their ouster from Afghanistan, most Taliban leaders found sanctuary among fellow ethnic Pashtuns in Pakistan's lawless Baluchistan and North-West Frontier Province (N.W.F.P.) regions. Pakistani authorities have arrested nearly 500 suspected al-Qaeda members, but Karzai...
...tight security lead to several clashes between U.S. Secret Service and their Senegalese hosts. Local luminaries in the audience simply bypassed by the security checkpoint constructed on the dock, refusing to suffer the indignity of the metal detector streaming by arguing officials in traditional African one-piece garments that seemed to move independently of their owners. U.S. officials tried their best to gingerly manage the cultural differences, especially with local security forces. "If he wants to keep his gun he's going to have to wear this pin," said a frustrated U.S. Secret Service agent speaking through an interpreter...
...stay at Hadassah as he moves through the crowded E.R. wearing bloody scrubs a few hours after last week's bombing. "The guy's a terrorist, one hundred percent, but I don't care," he says. Hadassah, Rivkind pledges, will help the Palestinian get a permit to cross the checkpoint. --With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem