| These checkpoints were beefed up following a number of casualties, wounds and death to U.S. forces. |
| Today, the occasional helicopter still hovers overhead, and sleepy UN soldiers wave cars through the few remaining checkpoints. |
| The poised, confident young woman was tossed into a world of checkpoints, strip searches and interrogations. |
| We kept a good pace and started using our own routes to make our way to checkpoints. |
| However our experience to date has been that the watchtowers have now been replaced by frequent checkpoints on roads in the area. |
| As dawn approached, police set up checkpoints as part of a plan to ban cars carrying fewer than four people from midtown Manhattan. |
