1.   A soldier interviewed Monday in Chaman who identified himself as a Taliban fighter said he managed to pass the checkpoint because he holds a Pakistani identity card.

2.   A reporter was warned by the Serbian police that he would be arrested if he tried to pass the checkpoint.

3.   Entering Tsotsin-Yurt on Monday, this reporter saw Russian soldiers collecting these tolls from Chechen drivers passing the checkpoints.

4.   Girls tuck baseball caps under their head scarves and apply makeup and fingernail polish once they have passed checkpoints.

5.   In an article he wrote on the Doctors Without Borders Web site, saying soldiers refused to let wounded civilians pass checkpoints to reach hospitals.

6.   In the West Bank, settlements break up the territory so Palestinians have to pass Israeli checkpoints to go from one town to another.

7.   So far, its officials have usually travelled together in groups, but the Bosnian Serbs have sometimes refused to let all of them pass its checkpoints.

8.   The adviser said he had observed vehicles passing the checkpoint without a nod from the border guards or the customs officers.

9.   The Shehadahs also passed the checkpoint after a search, before being fired upon.

10.   They drove back to Nikustak, passing a checkpoint of heavily armed rebels.