1.   Armed guards scanned the ID cards at checkpoints along the perimeter as visitors passed through metal detectors.

2.   At a checkpoint along the Drumcree Road, by the Catholic enclave of Ballyoran Park, a man in a red car upbraided a policeman for barring his way.

3.   At military checkpoints along the Kokcha River, which flows around the Taloqan front, usually lax opposition fighters vigilantly checked passing cars for weapons and potential Taliban infiltrators.

4.   At three checkpoints along the northern West Bank on Sunday, soldiers said they had received no orders to relax security.

5.   Authorities are not sure how the immigrants got past primary checkpoints along the border.

6.   Drug dealers stand at checkpoints along winding alleys.

7.   FBI agents have established additional checkpoints along the gravel road leading to the ranch.

8.   Foreign journalists have been turned back and some even detained at numerous checkpoints along the former front lines throughout the country.

9.   He said people were afraid now even to go shopping in Bujanovac, because the Serbian police had checkpoints along the road and sometimes turned the villagers back.

10.   Hohengarten said the smugglers avoided being caught at various checkpoints along the highway to Austin by using separate rental cars as decoys.