61. Troops manning roadblocks checked the identity cards of Israeli and Palestinian drivers and turned away all visitors. 62. Only police and gendarmes are permitted to man the roadblocks, the law passed by the Council of Ministers added. 63. Gunmen manning a roadblock with a tree trunk killed a senior Rwandan government official, state-run Rwandan radio reported Sunday. 64. In KwaZulu-Natal, the South Africans brought in the army, and farmers manned roadblocks where vehicles were sprayed with decontaminants. 65. A rebel manning a roadblock on Friday said the road, described on Thursday as very dangerous, was still closed to aid agency workers and journalists. 66. A Taliban commander manning a roadblock told AFP the people involved in the fighting were supporters of the former government who had been allowed to keep their weapons. 67. Armed Chinese police manning roadblocks said the departure was due to foreign affairs issues, but refused to make further comments. 68. Armoured personnel carriers were on the streets of General Santos, providing back up to security personnel manning roadblocks. 69. Dutch peacekeepers manning a roadblock to the south of the town first fired warning shots at the advancing troops and then engaged the Serb forces for about two hours. 70. They were manning roadblocks set up on main roads in the city, although traffic was running normally elsewhere and borders were open. |