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A New York Times photographer who was able to get through the cordon found more layers of checkpoints, each one run by about two dozen heavily armed Mahdi Army fighters clad in tracksuits and T-shirts.
Some say that the government has dispatched 1,200 people to guard him day and night, that there are several layers of checkpoints around the village, that the annual budget for guarding him is $7.8 million.
Still, local officials said the assault underlined the vulnerability of Iraqi security forces and demonstrated how a small group of militants could sow chaos in a heavily protected government compound despite layers of checkpoints, blast walls, police pat-downs and vehicle inspections.
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Even so, a remarkable sense of order prevails in much of Tahrir Square, from the layers of the checkpoints at the entrances to the warning system of metal bars striking metal, sounded when an attack from pro-government forces seems imminent.
"While people think about us in terms of the checkpoints and they see us as the checkpoints, there's a lot more layers of security," Ms. Howe said.
Shorter checkpoint intervals cause frequent checkpointing, large number of checkpoints thus resulting in much time spent in checkpoint activity, higher disk space required to store checkpoint images.
Constraint C5 specifies the range on the number of checkpoints.
After running the AMPL/CPLEX optimizer with these constraints for maximizing the placement of checkpoints, we get the total number of checkpoints equal to 40 such that the execution time for a checkpoint is 1 time unit.
This is illustrated with the help of Figure8. Figure 8 Impact of checkpoints.
The objective of the optimization model is to maximize the placement of checkpoints.
With lots of checkpoints.
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