Then came three days and four nights of isolation attended by armed guards.

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Real gun-free zones are a wonderful idea, but they are only real if they are created by metal detectors backed up by armed guards.

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Foreign journalists with video cameras are still working in central Iraq, but now circumstances are such that when they leave their fortified compounds, they must travel in pairs of cars, accompanied by armed guards.

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He confirmed that no vessel with armed guards had been taken over by pirates, and said in several cases guards had fired shots at pirates.

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Mallory Hagan won the beauty pageant after tap dancing to James Brown's "Get Up Off of That Thing" and answering a question about whether armed guards belong in grade schools by saying we should not fight violence with violence.

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Afghanistan's only five-star hotel is also a virtual fortress, surrounded by blast barriers, metal detectors, multiple reinforced gates and heavily armed guards.

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