81. Some checkpoints are manned by a group of policemen in a trailer, others are marked merely by a lone young soldier holding a machine gun. 82. Since then, soldiers manning checkpoints have become increasingly jittery. 83. Soldiers with rifles manned the checkpoints and sharpshooters patrolled the roof of the domed colossus. 84. That was unthinkable three days earlier, when Serb police manned a checkpoint on the road to Dragobilje. 85. Taliban soldiers were manning checkpoints at several intersections in the city, stopping vehicles and searching for weapons. 86. The checkpoint was manned by soldiers of the Royal Irish Regiment, a British Army unit whose members are all recruited in Northern Ireland. 87. The middlemen share the money with the police manning the checkpoints on routes commonly used by transport companies. 88. The nine soldiers and two policemen who were manning the checkpoint in Jaffna were arrested soon after the bodies were discovered. 89. The soldiers were returning to camp after manning checkpoints when a claymore mine exploded. 90. The soldiers manning the checkpoint were killed in the first bout of gunfire, and then the platoon commander was killed. |