Under cover of night, Baghdad wall is built

[babylonsister]

http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=46439

Under cover of night, Baghdad wall is built

By Monte Morin, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Construction of a controversial, three-mile blast wall in one of Baghdad’s most troubled neighborhoods was completed recently, following three months of grueling labor and heated protests from Iraqi residents and government officials.

The barrier, which consists of thousands of 12-foot-high concrete slabs, or T-walls, rings much of Adhamiyah — an island of Sunni families in Baghdad’s predominantly Shiite east side.

Engineers with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team lowered the final 7-ton slab into place in the early morning darkness of May 28, according to a U.S. military statement issued Tuesday.

U.S. commanders say the barrier will make Adhamiyah a safer neighborhood by restricting incoming and outgoing vehicle traffic to several guarded checkpoints. The project is part of an overall attempt by U.S. forces to quell sectarian violence in the embattled capital.

The plan triggered harsh criticism from both Sunnis and Shiites, who saw darker motives in the wall’s construction. While some compared it to Israel’s West Bank security wall, others insisted the project was part of a larger plan to divide the city into a maze of “gated communities.”

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[shance]

1. They can do that there, they can do it here.

Hopefully more citizens are waking up to the fact that these individuals are intending and willing to put everyone behind such a wall.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Have they installed the "Arbeit Machs Frei" logos over the gates yet?

Or, they could call it "Gitmo East".