51. Special forces teams established checkpoints along roads and smuggling routes to try to intercept al-Qaida fighters trying to slip in from the area along the Pakistani border. 52. Some checkpoints along the border with Myanmar, also known as Burma, were shut down as Thai police reinforcements tried to track down the attackers. 53. Sudanese security forces set up checkpoints along the streets of downtown Khartoum and neighboring Omdurman. 54. The checkpoints along the parade route, however, are unprecedented, he said. 55. The closure is enforced by checkpoints along key roads. 56. The Italians also stationed an armored car on an overpass overlooking the sole Bosnian government checkpoint along the road the convoys were using. 57. The Libyan travelers said police are conducting searches at checkpoints along the coast from the city of Benghazi to the Egyptian border. 58. The latest bombing prompted the military to set up checkpoints along the two national highways in the western half of Mindanao to inspect all buses. 59. The NATO-led peace force has several checkpoints along the heavily traveled road, the main route between Bosnia and other parts of Europe to the north. 60. The traders are often forced to pay bribes or hand over part of their load to get past the numerous military checkpoints along the way. |