The strain is likely to grow more acute as the government depends on helicopter gunships to extend its reach to parts of the country rendered impassable to logistics convoys and even armored vehicles by the rebels' improvised bombs.
Striking miners had then been attempting to stop convoys of lorries taking coal to Llanwern steelworks.
Welcome to the US border town of Nogales, home to the largest fresh-produce gateway into the US – a Big Food superhighway where convoys of vast trucks roll in from Mexico, sometimes dumping mountains of crops into landfill if, for example, the price of Florida tomatoes suddenly drops.
Armed incursions from Darfur are frequent across the porous border, endangering humanitarian convoys on the 11-hour drive from the nearest gravel road.
Detectives found evidence that the gang travelled between Merseyside and Kent before and after the offences took place, often in convoys.
During the second world war, he sailed on Russian convoys.
The would-be jihadis can fly to Turkey and make their way to the border, where they can volunteer for one of a variety of rebel groups or one of the humanitarian convoys.
UPI adds: Three aftershocks that followed on Saturday and two smaller ones yesterday sent more refugees fleeing to the relative safety of the countryside, despite attempts by officials to halt their movement over roads, already clogged by convoys of emergency supplies and ambulances.
International agencies are considering emergency food drops and truck convoys to reach extremely hungry people in Liberia and Sierra Leone, who are cordoned off from the outside world to halt the spread of the Ebola virus, a World Bank official said on Thursday.
The roads were clear except for occasional satellite TV vans, emergency vehicles with flashing blue lights and convoys of military-style humvees filled with National Guard.
Most days they travel out in convoys of brown armored trucks, posting letters at night in the villages to assure the local Afghans they are there to protect them, collecting fingerprints from would-be mine planters, resolving tribal disputes, meeting elders and trying to gain their trust so the villagers will pass on information when the fighting season begins in earnest.
