From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> looks like no wall is politically acceptable for Maliki
>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/world/middleeast/24iraq.html?bl&ex=11775600
00&en=2c500a00cf10dcf9&ei=5087%0A
> And it has proved to be an unlikely boon for Prime Minister Nuri Kamal
> al-Maliki, making the Shiite politician - at least for now - into a champion
> for Sunnis because he publicly opposed the wall's construction.
>
>

That wall......there are more than one wall. Oddly all the concrete which
was meant for hospitals & roads & sewers/water supply etc etc is
now being cast into city/town/village walls all over the place (& about
effing time).

Infiltration has been your enemy & vertical concrete walls make
infiltration harder.

Adam


> "Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in
> message news:462e7762$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Which is more politically acceptable, walls or death squads roaming at
>> will?
>>
>> You decide...
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>>> http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21604280-2703,00.html
>>>
>>> IN a fresh clash with his American allies, the Iraqi Prime Minister has
>>> ordered the US military to halt the construction of concrete walls being
>>> built around some of the most violent neighbourhoods in Baghdad.
>>>
>>> Nouri al-Maliki, the Shia leader, stepped in as Sunni communities
>>> complained
>>> that their neighbourhoods were being turned into ghettoes that could
>>> choke
>>> off life in their areas.
>>>
>>> "I oppose the building of the wall, and its construction
will stop," he
>>> said
>>> during a visit to Egypt yesterday. "There are other
methods to protect
>>> neighbourhoods."
>>>
>>> The US military had started to build concrete walls around five Baghdad
>>> neighbourhoods, most of them Sunni, in an attempt to stop car bombers
>>> leaving them and death squads infiltrating them.
>>>
>>> Mr al-Maliki, who has often been at odds with his US backers over
>>> security
>>> policy in the capital, said that "this wall reminds us of
other walls",
>>> in
>>> an apparent reference to the Israeli wall running through the
Palestinian
>>> West Bank.
>>>
>>> Sunnis living in the newly sealed-off enclaves had complained that the
>>> walls
>>> would cause severe traffic congestion and entrench the sectarian rift
>>> already dividing many Sunni from Shia areas.
>>>
>>>
>>> "Ad" 
wrote in message
>>> news:462c5c33$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> 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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