From: "Phil Payne" 

> "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)

Circling the wagons.

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