Now the image is complete. Baghdad will become synonymous with at least one aspect of the Israeli –
Palestinian conflict, with the visuals to match. Iraq has a wall.
A U.S. military brigade is constructing a 3-mile-long concrete wall to cut
off one of the capital’s most restive Sunni Arab districts from the Shiite
Muslim neighborhoods that surround it, raising concern about the further Balkanization
of Iraq’s most populous and violent city.U.S. commanders in northern Baghdad said the 12-foot-high barrier would make
it more difficult for suicide bombers to strike and for death squads and militia
fighters from sectarian factions to attack one another and then slip back
to their home turf. Construction began April 10 and is expected to be completed
by the end of the month.
Could we have given our enemies a bigger gift?
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