SC and sc represent, respectively, the storage consumption for the month of March, calculated by Amazon and consumer, based on their checkpoints.
Seven of the Brazilians died when a building collapsed on top of their checkpoint, Mr. Le Roy said, but otherwise the details of what happened to the organization's employees remained sketchy.
American soldiers also wounded four civilians on Thursday when they opened fire on a car approaching their checkpoint in southeastern Afghanistan.
Ansar al-Sharia still man their checkpoint on the city's western side.
MARCH 5, 2007 | GHAZNI PROVINCE Incident Report: Checkpoint Danger Afghan police officers shot a local driver who tried to speed through their checkpoint on a country road in Ghazni Province south of Kabul.
In the northern province of Kunduz, eight police officers were killed at dawn by Taliban gunmen who attacked their checkpoint on the main highway in the far north of the province, said Muhammad Omar, the provincial governor.
In the worst of the new episodes, six policemen were killed Saturday morning while asleep at their checkpoint on the strategic Ring Road in Helmand Province, after some police colleagues betrayed them to the Taliban, according to Dawood Ahmadi, the spokesman for the provincial governor.
On Sunday afternoon, when the M23 halted their rapid advance, their checkpoint was just 100 yards from a Congolese government checkpoint on the edge of Goma.
All around the city, police officers are on patrol and their checkpoints have delayed traffic for as much as 15 hours in some places, according to newspaper reports.
Few cars travel after dark in Mogadishu, and it is not unusual for government forces to fire on vehicles that approach their checkpoints, especially late at night.
