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Skeptic
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 Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject: Baghdad Wall - first step in 'Balkanisation' of Iraq |
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| Quote: | http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2063507,00.html
Apr 23rd 2007
Iraqi premier calls on US to halt construction of Baghdad wall
Iraq's premier, Nouri al-Maliki, yesterday called for a halt to the US military's construction of a three-mile wall in Baghdad separating Sunni and Shia Muslims.
Speaking in Egypt, he said: "I asked yesterday that it be stopped and that alternatives be found to protect the area ... I fear this wall might have repercussions which remind us of other walls, which we reject," he added, referring to misgivings that the wall would take on the symbolic status of similar barriers in Northern Ireland and the West Bank.
Dubbed the Great Wall of Adhamiya by the US soldiers who started building the 4m (12ft) barrier in 6 tonne sections under cover of darkness on April 10, it is designed to protect a mainly Sunni area in eastern Baghdad surrounded on three sides by Shia communities. US military authorities said it would create one of several "gated communities".
But Iraqis said they had not been consulted and the wall would exacerbate divisions between the communities.
"Isolating parts of Baghdad with barbed wire and concrete barriers will lead to more sectarian tension," the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party said in a statement. "Dividing the capital in this way will be the starting point for dividing Iraq."
US authorities offered no reaction last night. Mr Maliki's comments are the latest sign of tension between the Iraqi government and White House over strategies for securing the capital. In October he ordered the removal of roadblocks round Sadr City. US regional allies including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan are said to be backing moves for an Iraqi national unity government led by former premier Ayad Allawi. |
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Long Tooth
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| How long before its called a fence? perhaps it needs 8 feet more height like the one in occupied Palastine before that terminology is used. |
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karlos
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unfortunately america only knows one way to work
it listens to the Israeli lobby and then builds walls and gated communities.
When are they going to learn that apartheid is evil?
Soon it will be 1,000,000 Iraqis DEAD
more than 2,500,000 refugees escaped to Syria/Jordan/iran/here too
Gaza, Sadr City, Soweto, Guantanomo Bay
Americans even used Apartheid in Vietnam (walled enclaves)
they really are BARBARIANS
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Mark Gobell
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Beyond the Pale
In the 14th century the English barons built a wooden pale fence around the city of Dublin.
Anyone living beyond the pale did not "enjoy" the protection of English dominion.
In the same century Calais was enclosed by a similar pale that defined the English enclave.
Catherine the Great created the Pale of Settlement to seperate the Jews from Imperial Russia.
The Berlin wall was built to seperate two apparently different opposame ideologies and was torn down 9.11.1989
The Palestine Wall reinforces apartheid.
We now have the Baghdad Wall defining the green zone US UK Imperial Protectorate.
In an age where the world is encouraged to integrate, assimilate, join together and overcome differences why are we still building walls ?
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