A7 Bomb Kills 4 Soldiers in Iraq A suicide bomber drove a car into a checkpoint in Baghdad, killing four American soldiers in the deadliest suicide bombing against an American target in more than four months.
Rather than being the target of a military operation, he appeared to have blundered into a checkpoint in a part of Mogadishu controlled by the government and was killed in a firefight.
At least five police officers were among the dead when the bomber drove his car into a checkpoint in the predominantly Shia area of Kadhimiya.
So it was perhaps inevitable that the justices would be confronted with the question they considered today: Can the police, by adding a trained dog, turn a sobriety checkpoint into a constitutionally permissible way of checking motorists for drugs?
The lights went out, we heard gunshots, then we were made to run past a military checkpoint into a bigger room, with a corrugated iron shack, a market stall and several makeshift tents.
Staff Sgt. Brandon King Ryan Phillippee) and his squad, supervising a checkpoint in Tikrit, are drawn into a firefight that leaves some of them dead, others horribly wounded, and the rest badly shaken, both by the loss of their friends and by the deaths of Iraqi civilians.
Thursday's battle began around 10 a.m., when a suicide bomber targeting a logistics company that provides services for Italian troops detonated a vehicle packed with explosives at a checkpoint leading into the company's compound near the Herat airport, said Ali Ahmad Behishti, the head of reconnaissance for the Interior Ministry in Herat Province.
Members of the insurgent Peoples' Army for the Restoration of Democracy (APRD), guards a checkpoint leading into rebel-held territory.
Some claimed the monkey was identified at a checkpoint heading into the mountains and fitted with a tracking device.
WASHINGTON — The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Iraqi civilians and United States military personnel.
