11.   Paramilitary police kept journalists at a distance from what been a sprawling encampment.

12.   Other journalists were kept out of the Foreign Ministry, where the session was held, until a news conference scheduled for later Friday.

13.   Paramilitary police kept journalists at a distance Wednesday from what been a sprawling encampment.

14.   Paramilitary police kept journalists at a distance.

15.   Press freedom is notoriously limited by most Middle East governments, which impose explicit controls or rely on self-censorship to keep journalists in line.

16.   Police then formed a human chain to keep journalists out.

17.   A squad of police officers keeps the journalists from getting too close to the men as they answer a half-dozen or so shouted questions before departing.

18.   An Israeli government spokesman, Gideon Meir, said Israel had no choice but to keep journalists away from some areas where it was fighting Palestinians.

19.   And journalists were kept away from the area at Kandahar where Lindh boarded the plane.

20.   At the same time, Arbilla said the climate of violence that keeps journalists in check in some countries has diminished.