The night before that, American soldiers had found the bodies of two Arab men on a roadside, one shot in the head and one decapitated.
But the officers say an equally large number of Iraqi detainees say money is a significant reason they planted roadside bombs or shot at Iraqi and American-led forces.
Cuarón's initial idea for maintaining continuity during the roadside ambush scene was dismissed by production experts as an "impossible shot to do".
They stole food and petrol, firing shots as they struck at the roadside stop near Villers-Cotterets in the Aisne region, French media report.
The director, David Mackenzie, underlines the economic themes with shots of roadside billboards hawking debt relief.
National Guard troops are saying they are being sent off to Iraq without the necessary gear to protect them from the roadside bombs and sniper shots that have become the everyday business of the war.
National Guard and reserve troops say they are being sent abroad without the necessary gear to protect them from roadside bombs and sniper shots that have become an everyday element of the war.
Other architectural images are more idealistic, as in the case of Xing Danwen's dreamy filmstrips of Beijing and Xiong Wenyun's stirring shots of humble roadside houses in Tibet that she fitted with cloth hangings the color of the Buddhist rainbow.
Among the images of fortresses and temples at dawn and dusk, the pictures of densely bearded Sikh worshippers in their neon temples, and multiple shots of carefully composed roadside snacks, there's one that I keep coming back to.
Nour al-Khal, a brave female journalist I had worked extensively with, was abducted by men wearing police uniform in Basra, shot and dumped on the roadside.
