Some biological weapons experts fear that terrorists have gotten hold of the smallpox virus, the last two official repositories of which are kept under guard in the United States and Russia.
The abbot had been kept under guard in his monastery cell since Saturday, having been temporarily judged unfit to travel because of a high fever and a high blood sugar count.
Much of the violence took place in the scrubby yard in front of Butare's local government offices, or prefecture, where at one point hundreds of Tutsis were kept under guard.
But 12 hours after the US operation began, Gen Noriega's armed militia were still setting up roadblocks and stopping cars in the city's main financial district, while the new civilian government was kept under guard by the US military, which said it was too risky for them to appear in public.
The last male northern white rhino must now be kept under armed guard 24/7; one of the last six Irrawaddy river dolphins just perished; the pace of deforestation in the Amazon has more than doubled in the past six months; the California drought data is more brutal by the day; and Arctic sea ice hit a record low for this time of year -- to mention but a few.
Would there really be another patient in the room where Lester was being kept under police guard?
Now the workers, some of whom have seen colleagues killed, are kept under armed guard and moved from place to place because residents have objected to their presence.
After the fire, a wing housing women and children was evacuated while a single men's block was kept under close guard by some 200 police officers.
In December, Associated Press managed to contact Liu at her apartment in Beijing despite the fact she is kept under strict guard.
But what's really got people hot under the collar is the Langdon-esque situation of 11 translators being kept under armed guard in a windowless basement for two months in the depths of Italy.
