From: Monte Davis 

"The trenches and sandbag mountains I wrote about last week are now
all over Baghdad. They are not being put there by the army; they are part
of the [Baath] Party's preparations for an insurgenc[y]. Each day a
different area of Baghdad goes thru the motions. Party members spread in
the streets of that area, build the trenches, sit in them polishing their
Kalashnikovs and drink tea."

(Salam Pax, "Where is Raed?" weblog, 2/5/2003)

"The Iraqi government plans to seal off Baghdad next month by ringing
it with a series of trenches and setting up dozens of traffic checkpoints
to control movement in and out of the city of seven million people, an
Interior Ministry spokesman said today.The effort is one of the most
ambitious security projects in recent memory…"

(NY Times, 9/15/2006)

Monte Davis
http://montedavis.livejournal.com

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