1.   At a heavily fortified checkpoint, machine gun-toting police decide whether to let travelers through to the resort, turn them back, or perhaps arrest them.

2.   But at night the Russian army retreats behind its fortified checkpoints, or within the perimeter of the main military base in Khankala, just outside Grozny.

3.   In the Palestinian territories, a few miles away but in a different world beyond heavily fortified checkpoints, the details are different, but the litanies are similar.

4.   Russian forces hide in their fortified checkpoints as rebels creep into the city to shoot at them or to lay mines to blow up military convoys the next day.

5.   Israeli military sources said the attack took place in front of the heavily fortified Mahfouza military checkpoint that guards the entrance into the Jewish settlement area.

6.   The Russian forces spokesman, Roman Sokolovsky, was quoted by Interfax as saying that the heavily fortified checkpoints would remain in place until the Chechens began disarming.

7.   Under the accord, the Russians were to have pulled out all their heavily fortified checkpoints positioned outside towns and villages by Sunday.

8.   Israeli military sources said the attack took place in front of a heavily fortified military checkpoint that guards the entrance into the Jewish settlement area.

9.   Russian forces spokesman Roman Sokolovsky was quoted by Interfax as saying that the heavily fortified checkpoints would remain in place until the Chechens began disarming.

10.   Russian army spokesman Roman Sokolovsky said the fortified checkpoints would remain in place until the separatists had effectively begun disarming.