21.   That allowed the targeting of Palestinian police forces manning checkpoints that have been in place for years.

22.   The commander of Israeli forces in Hebron said the soldiers who manned the checkpoint the night of the shooting were detained and are being questioned.

23.   The checkpoint was manned on Sunday entirely by reserve soldiers.

24.   The personnel carrier pulls into a clearing to relieve a unit of paratroopers manning a checkpoint, who look tired after a sleepless shift.

25.   The soldiers manning the checkpoints in Farah, all anti-Taliban fighters, many back from exile in Pakistan or Iran, said the flags meant little.

26.   Throughout Tuesday afternoon, police were manning checkpoints across the city, stopping many Palestinian men on the street.

27.   Unsmiling, they man the checkpoints that ring the capital, deciding who may enter and who will be turned away.

28.   With National Guard units and police manning checkpoints, employees of investment firms and related buusinesses shuttled in vans to their offices to prepare to resume working.

29.   Police armed with machine guns began manning checkpoints throughout Athens on Monday as part of a broad crackdown on crime.

30.   Police wearing bullet-proof jackets manned checkpoints around Moscow, stopping and searching many of the cars heading into the city on Sunday.