Ms. Shourd has said that she, Mr. Bauer and Mr. Fattal made an innocent mistake in wandering over the unmarked border, crossing when a border guard of unknown nationality waved to them to approach.
At the principal Ghana border crossing adjoining Noé, Ivory Coast, guards armed with Kalashnikov rifles, who said they were on Mr. Gbagbo's side, told a group of journalists seeking to enter the country that they were not welcome and ordered them to return to Ghana.
The doorway, then, is both welcome and departure, is border guard and border crossing, and though I'm not on the woman's side of it, I'm not entirely on my father's side either.
The rebels have established firm control of more than a half-dozen towns from the Dhiba border crossing into Tunisia, where rebel guards mingle amiably with their Tunisian counterparts, to the major town of Yafran, a 90-minute drive from Tripoli.
On Saturday in the West Bank, a Palestinian man was shot dead after he tried to stab an Israeli security guard at a border crossing, Israeli police said.
Those standing guard at the border crossing with Ivory Coast near Toe Town, eastern Liberia, were in victorious mood when interviewed by the Guardian.
A Palestinian was shot dead after he allegedly tried to stab an Israeli security guard at a border crossing on Saturday, while the head of a Jewish human rights organization was attacked Friday by a masked Jewish man near a settlement in the West Bank.
The guards at the border crossing checked Reid's credentials, made him open the case and marveled at the Cup.
Many are men of military age who have driven across the open desert, or paid bribes to Iraqi guards at the border crossing 250 miles east of Amman, to escape being drafted into Saddam Hussein's battalions.
Faced with an ever larger and louder crowd, guards at the Bornholmer Strasse border crossing yielded in the late evening.
