According to an initial investigation, three cars full of Israelis entered the compound of Joseph's Tomb without coordination with the Israeli military or Palestinian security forces and then tried to break through a Palestinian Authority police checkpoint.
John McPhee himself taught me a lesson about the importance of accuracy and the persistent authority of error ("Checkpoints," February 9th & 16th).
The intruders opened fire on the federal police at the checkpoint, the authorities said.
In Mosul, two Iraqi soldiers were killed when gunmen opened fire at a security checkpoint, the authorities said.
A witness said that she saw one man taken into custody by the authorities at a security checkpoint and another man taken into custody near a parking garage.
Wearing a wig and travelling in a preacher's car, Coke was arrested by Jamaican authorities at a police checkpoint in June 2010 and extradited to the US.
In Baghdad, a staff member of the capital's provincial council who focused on social welfare programs was killed after an adhesive bomb that had been attached to his vehicle exploded as he passed through a security checkpoint, the authorities said.
It didn't matter that Massport had no authority over the security checkpoints under federal law at the time, not that that had any bearing on the hijackers' simple plan of carrying small knives onboard and overpowering unsuspecting passengers and crew.
Russia accused Georgia of "seeking to provoke new hostilities," while Russian authorities were dismantling checkpoints outside South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
The groups said the application was developed after a number of Sikh travelers complained about discriminatory screenings and pat-downs by T.S.A. authorities at airport checkpoints.
Mexican authorities have established checkpoints on major highways around the country, distributed 100,000 photos of Guzmán to toll booths and put 10,000 agents from various components of the Mexican federal police on high alert since the escape.
