At the checkpoint, I asked who was in charge of policing the day's demonstration.
"As soon as they get Qaddafi, it will be over," said Maj. Hisham Mustafa, in charge of a checkpoint on the highway outside Brega.
Bassim Muhammad, 22, who said he was in charge of a checkpoint on a major street in Adhamiya, said the Iraqi Army "has disrespected us from the beginning and they used to curse and harass us at checkpoints".
When Captain Hamidullah approached the American sergeant in charge of the checkpoint to explain that they just wanted to let their colonel get through, the sergeant brusquely waved him away and told him not to come back.
"They keep coming, I've never seen it like this," said sub-inspector Tara Bhattrai, in charge of the Thankot checkpoint.
Among the dead were children, civilians, members of Iraqi security forces and members of the American-financed armed groups known as the Awakening Council, who were in charge of the nearby checkpoint beside the huge state-owned refinery, Iraqi security officials said.
Down the road from the army base at Al Maya, Ali Dow Mohammed, a Zawiyah militia commander in charge of a heavily fortified checkpoint, said his forces would drop their weapons only when there was a new government, "and there is no government".
The day before yesterday, the FSA captured Colonel Ahmed Ruqmani who was in charge of al-Baladiyia and Mathaf checkpoints.
Built on top of existing Globus services, CPPC-G services are in charge of submitting and monitoring CPPC applications, managing generated checkpoint files, detecting failures and automatically restarting failed executions.
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