From: "Robert Comer" 

Sounds like they're digging in for an escalation of the civil war...

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Bob Comer


"Monte Davis"  wrote in message
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> "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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