[Zhang Fei]

The bomb threats are so pervasive that Stryker drivers have abandoned some stretches of road in favor of driving through the deserts on different routes. The road to one smaller outpost has so many homemade bombs that the soldiers usually arrive on foot, a treacherous hike due to buried land mines.

The Chinese were reputed to have executed entire villages of Vietnamese over these kinds of things (i.e. assisting or not informing on Vietnamese militia who mounted ambushes against the Chinese invaders), during their 1979 invasion of Vietnam.

[sailor4321]

First you have to execute the journalists ... then you can get to the ville ...