Saudis build 550-mile fence to shut out Iraq

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Saudis build 550-mile fence to shut out Iraq

Harry de Quetteville, Middle East Correspondent
(Filed: 01/10/2006)

Security in Iraq has collapsed so dramatically that Saudi Arabia has ordered the construction of a 550-mile high-tech fence to seal off its troubled northern neighbour.

The huge project to build the barrier, which will be equipped with ultraviolet night-vision cameras, buried sensor cables and thousands of miles of barbed wire, will snake across the vast and remote desert frontier between the countries.

The fence will be built despite the hundreds of millions of pounds that the Saudi kingdom has spent in the past two years to beef up patrols on its border with Iraq, with officials saying the crisis in Iraq is now so dangerous it must be physically shut out.

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[mod mom]

1. Who got the contract to build: bin Ladens or Halliburton?

[niallmac]

2. "...everyone you speak to..." says the fence is badly needed.

I love that bit of journalism. Everyone you speak to in the Royal Family that is scared to death or everyone
that you speak to on the street who may or may not care for the Royal Family?

Smuggling has been rampant on the northern border since time began. The Royals are worried their golden calf
is about to be sacrificed. Iran would dearly love to wrest control of Mecca from the Sunnis.

As in Israel and the United States, fences and walls on your borders are a sign of a struggling state.
This is what we get when we elect a yee haw moron to show them fereners in Eyerak just who's in charge sho nuff.

I wish the world community could put the U.S. in 'time out.'