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...waiting for the right moment to slip across the border into Cameroon. Finally, as dawn cracked last Wednesday, Taylor decided to make his escape. A light-colored Land Rover carrying him and four companions--believed to be his wife, son, driver and an aide--drove past an unmanned immigration checkpoint before encountering a final gate across a narrow bridge. Witnesses say the driver and aide got out of the vehicle and started fiddling with the gate's lock. Nigerian customs officials approached the men, who tried to bribe the officers into letting them pass, then fled. Inside the SUV, officers...
...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...
Finally, after eight and a half hours of waiting and interrogation at the airport, we were cleared to leave. Our commute from Tel Aviv to Ramallah was remarkably fast and easy. We encountered one checkpoint between the two cities, and we were cleared to pass as soon as the driver told the soldiers in Hebrew that we were American. We reached Ramallah in less than an hour—in stark contrast to the three hours it took to travel from Ramallah to Nablus (a distance of 30km) two days later...
After giving a presentation at the “Seeds of Peace Center for Coexistence” in Jerusalem, we witnessed the true face of military occupation. We were dropped off by our taxi at the Qalandiya checkpoint terminal, the only entrance or exit to Ramallah. We walked through a 20-foot opening in the massive concrete wall the Israeli government had constructed around the city. Side-by-side with dozens of men, women and children, we walked through metal barriers lined with barbed wire in a cattle-like procession. We passed by the window of a security-check area...
...from across the country, plus one more flown up from a forward force base in Kuwait, had patrolled a city free of car bombs or men with explosives strapped to their chests. But on Thursday, the carnage returned, when three bombers found their targets: a funeral procession, a security checkpoint, and the headquarters of the police major crimes unit. At least 56 people died. While the insurgent enemy's ability to operate had been badly crimped since March 12 by the sprawling urban offensive dubbed Operation Scales of Justice, a candid Major General Rick Lynch - the official U.S. military spokesman...