But the barrier will require laborious circumnavigation by villagers, through roads, checkpoints and army-controlled entrance gates, turning a five-minute journey into a five-hour one.

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This week, Turkey's semi-official Anatolian Agency reported that a special chemical, biological, radiation and nuclear research vehicle had been deployed to one of the busiest border gates between Turkey and opposition controlled Syria.

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But increasingly mechanical systems inside those gates are being linked to computers and controlled via networks and cyberspace.

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