41. For nearly eight years, the metal gate outside the al-Rasheed family home has been left unlocked. 42. Guards armed with automatic weapons are posted around the clock at the metal gate to the compound. 43. It snaked off into a placid horizon of trees and lush green lawn as two uniformed police officers closed the spiked metal gate. 44. It looks more like a military bunker than a shrine, with sandbags, barbed wire and gun-toting young men at the locked metal gates. 45. Modern Jerusalem is just outside the metal gates, barely kept at bay. 46. On Sunday, in a hard-hit part of town, shopowners were sitting with their metal gates half-open, guarding their goods. 47. Police-escorted motorcades brought officials to the financial buildings, swinging open a metal gate at a spot where individuals with credentials also could walk through. 48. Security agents outside had broken down the metal gate surrounding the compound and moved swiftly into the room where the guests were gathered. 49. Some squeezed through narrow openings in the metal gates, while others ranted about inefficiency until officials at Ellis Park opened the gates to set them free. 50. Store owners quickly pulled down metal gates to protect windows. |