The shooters killed one person — a border guard visiting the citadel — and injured another 11, according to the state-owned RIA Novosti news agency.
On 28 September 2000, then-opposition leader of Israel Ariel Sharon and members of the Likud Party, along with 1,000 armed guards, visited the al-Aqsa compound; a large group of Palestinians went to protest the visit.
Before September 11th, the intelligence division was devoted mostly to guarding visiting dignitaries.
Woodward was well known to the guards, having visited 2,372 times in the previous two years to research his best-selling books.
Security footage outside Bland's cell, however, showed guards last visited Bland at 7 05 a.m.
The government of Sindh has deployed troops to guard the visiting players, and have detailed 5,000 policemen to provide security at the venue of the matches.
If I choose to miss a meal of oily food, a guard will visit my room and ask me if I intend to eat.
Explaining yourself to a gatehouse guard before visiting friends or family might be familiar in an upscale urban US neighbourhood, but it's not your usual experience among the corn and soya bean fields of southwestern Ontario.
Mr. Tibi believes that it began the following day, when Ariel Sharon, the Israeli rightist, made a politicized, heavily guarded visit to the area near Al Aksa Mosque.
The Palestinian uprising began in late September after Mr. Sharon made a heavily guarded visit to the plaza outside Al Aksa, the important mosque in the contested holy center of Jerusalem, to assert Israeli sovereignty over the area.
A heavily guarded visit to the area in September by Ariel Sharon, the hawkish leader of the opposition Likud Party, set off riots in the compound that mushroomed into a Palestinian uprising, which has been called the Aksa intifada.
