wicket
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Fri Apr-20-07 12:09 PM
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U.S. walls off Baghdad neighborhood |
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That surge is working great, eh? :sarcasm: LINKU.S. soldiers are building a three-mile wall to protect a Sunni Arab enclave surrounded by Shiite neighborhoods in a Baghdad area "trapped in a spiral of sectarian violence and retaliation," the military said.
When the wall is finished, the minority Sunni community of Azamiyah, on the eastern side of the Tigris River, will be gated, and traffic control points manned by Iraqi soldiers will be the only entries, the military said.
"Shiites are coming in and hitting Sunnis, and Sunnis are retaliating across the street," said Capt. Scott McLearn, of the U.S. 407th Brigade Support Battalion, which began the project April 10 and is working "almost nightly until the wall is complete," the statement said.
It said the concrete wall, including barriers as tall as 12 feet, "is one of the centerpieces of a new strategy by coalition and Iraqi forces to break the cycle of sectarian violence" in Baghdad.
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Fri Apr-20-07 12:18 PM
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1. I have a great idea! Lets build a Baghdad Wall!!! |
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Edited on Fri Apr-20-07 12:19 PM by jsamuel
Mr. Alachi... TEAR DOWN THAT WALL!
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Fri Apr-20-07 12:25 PM
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2. "We've turned the corner!!!" |
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Fri Apr-20-07 12:35 PM
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3. Yeah. Whatever happened to tearing down walls?? |
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Fri Apr-20-07 12:54 PM
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4. the last sentence of the report was |
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as true as things can get.
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Fri Apr-20-07 02:08 PM
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5. Same as it ever was... |
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Fri Apr-20-07 03:44 PM
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7. The future = gated communities........everywhere |
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keeping someone called "them" out.
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Fri Apr-20-07 03:46 PM
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8. Welcome to East Berli- er, I mean Bahgdad. |
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Fri Apr-20-07 03:48 PM
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9. Will They Build It Next To the Ditch? |
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Or did they already ditch the ditch?
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