A person walking along South 15 Avenue (almost certainly unaware of the street name) will go past a series of corners in this order: Checkpoint Corner, Danger Corner and Keep Your Eyes Peeled.
The driver reported that soldiers at a checkpoint had ordered him to turn back and that when he turned the bus around, it came under fire.
He got Lula and Simba into large crates and moved them out of the city, only to be stopped at an Iraqi Army checkpoint and ordered to return them to the ravaged zoo.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Ahmed Hamadeh had spent a year in a jail in a Damascus suburb when guards chained him to fellow inmates, marched them to an outlying military checkpoint, and ordered them to dig trenches for the soldiers.
On Dec. 20, according to rival Afghan commanders in Gardez, Mr. Zadran ordered fighters at a checkpoint south of the city to halt a convoy of tribal elders from Khost who were heading to Kabul for the inauguration of the new interim government.
Ahmed, the Islamic Party guard, claimed that he and his colleagues were ordered to remove their checkpoints from the mosque shortly before the attack.
After authorities had continued to use fake British-made bomb detectors over the past decade, Abadi finally ordered them removed from checkpoints across Iraq earlier this week and ordered a shelved corruption inquiry into their procurement to be reopened.
During the "March for Democracy", the AL ordered cops to man checkpoints at Dhaka's major intersections.
An Iraqi police official, Col. Yassin Duweich, said the bomber stopped his car at the checkpoint and was ordered to step out for a security search, according to The Associated Press.
When the fighters from the al-Qa'ida-linked group refused to let him pass through, Hamami ordered them to dismantle their checkpoint.
