1.   Trash cans appear to have been fashioned from old jet fuel barrels.

2.   At one, a severed human head was seen perched on top of a fuel barrel Wednesday while guards went about their business.

3.   The fuel was caught in a standoff with customs authorities in Tajikistan that delayed the stationing of fuel barrels here by at least a day.

4.   The island is dotted by air raid shelters and riddled with tunnels full of empty fuel barrels and other war paraphernalia.