Trapped Between the Wall and the Militants

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Trapped Between the Wall and the Militants
Adhimiya Residents Speak; $10 Mil for Cement Barriers in Iraq
Posted 1 hr. 45 min. ago


Photo by Ali Yussef/AFP.
An Iraqi walks past the three-mile concrete barrier surrounding Baghdad's Adhamiya neighborhood last week.

The concrete walls going up in certain Baghdad neighborhoods and other parts of the country will cost ten million dollars, in addition to the costs of transportation and installation, al-Hayat writes on Monday, citing Iraqi officials.

Regardless of what happens in Adhamiya, the predominantly Sunni area of Eastern Bahgdad were the construction of a concrete wall has sparked much controversy, separation walls are planned to be installed in at least ten districts of Baghdad and in 40 other areas around the country, Iraqi officials said.

Ominously, one interior ministry official said to al-Hayat that “building separation barriers will not end the series of violent acts in the capital.” The official added that the money coming from the Defense Ministry for the construction was enough to create and equip an advanced brigade of security forces. The source added that the majority of detachments of the Defense and Interior ministries lacked the most basic equipment, due to lack of funds.

Meanwhile, residents of Adhamiya are watching the debate about the wall that isolates them from the rest of Baghdad with concern, as the completion of the concrete wall means the isolation of the district from the rest of the city, imprisoning Adhamiya in a “closed cocoon,” whereas undoing the wall means continuing the tragic conditions the neighborhood is experiencing, al-Hayat reported last week.

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Just think - one day someone will call for the Iraq wall to be torn down. And the PNAC name will be remembered for what it was.

And then there is the wall that Israel is building.

And then there is the wall that the vigilantes and Latino haters are trying to get built.

a closed cocoon and the Warsaw ghetto?

I suspect the difference is small. Maybe zero.