That means more people at the checkpoints, of course.
Checkpoints of plump sandbags abutted the majestic, ancient stones on either side of the gate.
Between curfews, checkpoints of armed civilians and fears of looting, transportation has emerged as a major problem.
The Screening Process By now we've all heard stories about snaking lines at security checkpoints, of check-ins taking hours.
But their presence is tempting rival Shia groups, vying for influence, to set up checkpoints of their own.
Entering it on Tuesday required passing through heavy checkpoints of burnt-out vehicles staffed by young men bearing pistols and grenades.
"Today a group of people attacked one of the checkpoints of the army in Falluja," Mr. Maliki said in a statement, his first comments on the confrontation.
(Molotov cocktails are sometimes thrown at protests at the checkpoints of Beitunia and Kalandia but never, Bassem said, in Nabi Saleh).
And they walk from Baghdad in the north, paying little attention to the checkpoints of allied forces or the broken visages of Saddam Hussein.
The first checkpoints of the Serbian police are over another ridge about 3,000 yards away, so the village in effect is in a no man's land.
Right now, the patchwork of alcohol taxes isn't coming close to covering those costs — the costs of drunken-driving checkpoints, of hospital bills for alcohol-related accidents and child abuse, and of the economic loss caused by death and injury.
