"Park your car on the side of the road, open the trunk and get your official papers ready," the soldier told us when he stopped our car Aug. 9 at a military checkpoint north of the capital.
The line of cars waiting to enter or exit the capital on Eid al-Fitr was long and exhausting, while civilians stood around doing nothing except observing how things were going. In fact, these soldiers were members of the military intelligence services, who are involved in a security plan for part of a new campaign called "revenge of the martyrs."