Mr Prince said there was a "very big traffic circle" and that the "jury is still out".

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Instead, Iraqi officials said the contractors started shooting wildly when a driver mistakenly entered a traffic circle at the same time as the convoy.

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At a traffic circle near a dam on Samarra's outskirts, an Iraqi policeman approached the Marines and asked if they had come for prisoners, Fisher said.

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We left the city via a giant traffic circle.

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On Sept. 16, he knew a security convoy was heading for his traffic circle because the parade of armored vehicles was always announced by the same thing: the thumping blades of helicopters.

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Center Tyler Seguin skated out of traffic in the left circle to make the pass to McQuaid.

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The archipelago is a hazardous traffic median in the great circle route, the shortest path between ports on either side of the North Pacific.

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The stickers on traffic signals also included ones that said "Press to Teleport, " printed as white words on a black circle.

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