Word: checkpoints
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Ambassador Lasha Zhvania is a senior Georgian official. One morning this week, he was pacing back and forth at a Russian military checkpoint just outside the war torn city of Gori, talking angrily on his mobile telephone . For more than two hours he had been attempting to escort a delegation of European officials to Gori from the capital Tbilisi. A journey that ordinarily should take 40 minutes was already into its third hour. "I am the foreign relations committee chairman in the Georgian Parliament and it just took us 40 minutes to go a few meters," he told...
Even the governor of Gori was barred from returning to his town today. Waiting at a police checkpoint in his black Toyota Land Cruiser some 48 km (30 miles) from Gori, he said the Georgian government ordered him to leave yesterday for his own security after looters overran the town, ransacking his home and office. He said that, according to his sources, local Ossetians are urging Russian troops to stay. "They (Ossetians) don't want to be exposed (to retribution)," said the governor, Vladimir Vardzelashvili...
...body was a note, which read, "For not paying, yours truly La Familia." The boy had been asphyxiated more than a month earlier, having been kidnapped some 53 days previously when the armored vehicle in which he was being driven was stopped at what appeared to be a checkpoint of the AFI, Mexico's Federal Agency of Investigations. The kidnappers wore AFI uniforms and insignia, according to information revealed to police by a bodyguard who survived to tell the tale. The body of the driver had been sent to the family soon after the snatch to demonstrate the seriousness...
...Mexican federal agency tasked with investigating kidnappings, but since so many of its members have been implicated in criminal acts, victims have little confidence in its ability to protect them. Fernando Martí, after all, was taken at what appeared to be an AFI checkpoint. Amid the public outrage generated by the case, the local authorities in Mexico City suspended all law-enforcement checkpoints in the city. Two of the three suspects arraigned in the case were active-duty policemen, one of them reportedly a senior figure in the force...
...impossible for anyone to get through here with a weapon. Even Ali al-Dabbagh [Iraq's government spokesman] can't get a weapon in," a security guard at the second Global checkpoint told TIME a week after the incident. He said Mehdi must have been "driving fast." Says another Global official who was on the road the day of the shooting: "I know they were unarmed ... It was the U.S. military shooting three civilians. This is public knowledge...