Convoys of dark green military trucks, filled with soldiers and supplies, move along the road, guarded by soldiers with machine-guns.
Near Homs I saw one tank sitting by the side of the road, guarding a broad, freshly dug ditch about 100 yards long by the side of the highway.
In an interview on Wednesday, sitting in a dirty command post beside the road, guarded by an old Soviet tank and several howitzers, Mr. Zadran railed against Mr. Karzai's "illegitimate government".
The main entrance is no longer accessible from the road; guards check under the bonnets of approaching cars, and guests are dropped off at a screening centre a long walk away.Some 30,000 people have been killed in the past four years in terrorism, sectarianism and army attacks on the terrorists.
His captors kept him at a farm just off the road, guarded by the father of Sangeen.
In both scenarios, peacekeepers "would need to be deployed urgently to protect civilians, prevent widespread and systematic human rights violations, secure key roads," guard Bujumbura's airport, and safeguard humanitarian assistance.
We left Baghdad and drove down roads guarded by guerrilla fighters.
"They just started again in the last few days," she said, indicating the earthmovers busy on the slopes above, the new roads guarded by police cars.
The settlers have their own roads, guarded by the Israeli Army, water, electricity, supplies and — occasional if well-publicized crackdowns aside — substantial impunity from the law.
The town could be entered by three roads, guarded by gates.
