Some of them were detailed to be the BBC's bodyguards, not that we had any choice in the matter.

BBC: Mitrovica: K-For's hardest test

Dealing two blows to presidential confidentiality , the Supreme Court ruled that the president's bodyguards were not exempt from testifying about his private behaviour, and that his conversations with government lawyers could not remain confidential.

ECONOMIST: Too close to call

These men are not going to be protective bodyguards in any shape or form.

BBC: The spectre that will not vanish

Mr. DELL'ORTO: I don't want a soldier, when he kicks down a door in a hut in Afghanistan, searching for Osama bin Laden, to have to worry about whether, when he does so, and questions the individuals he finds inside, who may or may not be bin Laden's bodyguards, or even that individual himself, to worry about whether he's got to advise them of some rights before he takes a statement.

NPR: Congress Finds Solution for Guantanamo Trials Elusive

"The only reason that the rest of us on the truck survived was because the bodyguards surrounded my truck and did not allow the second attack to take place on my truck, " she said.

CNN: Bhutto 'suspicious of regime'

Young voters, Dalits (once untouchables), even Sikhs, who have not forgotten a Congress-inspired pogrom against them in 1984 (after the murder by her Sikh bodyguards of Rajiv's mother, Indira Gandhi), flocked back to the party that ruled India for most of its first 50 years of independence.

ECONOMIST: Congress is poised to return to power, but not just yet