From: Ad 

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=20462

I did say a while back that they should build city walls around trouble
spots so as to "protect & control"....I was thinking about
whole towns/cities e.g. Ramadi....but here is an internal wall....

"Residents of Sunni Baghdad district on Saturday accused US forces
walling them in behind a five-kilometre (three-mile) security barrier of
hardening the city's already bitter sectarian divisions.

On April 10, US paratroopers began hauling six-tonne (14,000-pound)
sections of concrete wall into place around the Sunni district of
Adhamiyah, one of the minority community's last enclaves in Shiite east
Baghdad.

The wall is designed to prevent Shiite death squads from launching attacks
to drive out the Sunnis, and to prevent Sunni insurgents from using the
pocket as a base for raids and bombing runs into Shiite areas.

Eleven days after the project began, the highway dividing Adhamiyah from
its Shiite neighbours is lined with tall concrete barriers. A US military
statement issued on Tuesday said troops would work nightly until it is
completed.

"The idea is to curb some of the self-sustaining violence by
controlling who has access to the neighbourhoods," said Captain Marc
Sanborn, a military engineer from the 82nd Airborne Division, according to
the US statement.

The area is to become what the US military called a "gated
community" protected by barriers and checkpoints manned by Iraqi
troops."


Adam

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