Baghdad residents protest at wall

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Source: BBC

Hundreds of Iraqis have staged a protest against the building of a dividing wall between a Shia district of Baghdad and a Sunni area.

Residents of the Shula and Ghazaliya districts waved Iraqi flags and chanted slogans rejecting both the proposed separation and the US occupation.

They demanded the government intervene to ensure the barrier is demolished.

The US military said the wall would reduce sectarian violence and stop the movement of weapons and militants.

Many Iraqis reacted angrily in April when US troops began building a barrier around the Baghdad Sunni enclave of Adhamiya to prevent it being attacked by Shia militants.



Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6991448.stm

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[Maggie_May]

1. This what I heard when listening to the Petraeus report

He was talking about building more walls. Iraq will be caged Iraq's thats what they are doing. To them that is what they call a safe Iraq build a wall. You never here about this on the news stations but thats what they are doing. I thought we tear down walls not Bush he builds walls.

[tridim]

2. Building walls is their answer to everything

As long as the walls don't block their illegal wiretaps.

[chelsea0011]

3. "Mr. Mala-ki. Tear down that wall"

There. I just ended the Iraq occupation/police action.

[krkaufman]

5. That would be a VERY effective visual ...

... a bunch of Iraqis tearing down one of these walls, amid cheering and flag-waving. A definite snub to the continued occupation.

[Critters2]

4. "Something there is that doesn't love a wall."

Not in Berlin, not in Palestine, not in Baghdad. Why are we so slow to learn this?