1.   Aware of the potential for retaliatory terror in connection with the trial, law enforcement officials have turned the federal courthouse complex in downtown Denver into an armed fortress.

2.   He described the clubhouse as an armed fortress guarded at all times by gun-toting members and pitbulls.

3.   Shopkeepers complained that security measures had turned the village into an armed fortress, where the wealthy guests could barely go out and shop.

4.   The army tightened a stranglehold on Rio shantytowns Saturday, choking the drug trade that has corrupted police and turned hillside slums into armed fortresses.

5.   Jewish settlements in Hebron have been transformed into armed fortresses as the Israeli army prepares its long awaited redeployment in the volatile West Bank city.