US military builds huge wall around Sunni Baghdad area as the Iraqis enjoy their new found freedoms

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http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/U_S_military_builds_wall_around_Sunni_Baghdad_area.html?siteSect=143&sid=7736971&cKey=1177080764000

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops are building a wall around a Sunni enclave in Baghdad, part of a strategy to "break the cycle of sectarian violence" in the Iraqi capital.

Work began on April 10 on the 5-km (3-mile) cement wall at Adhamiya, a mainly Sunni Arab area surrounded on three sides by Shi'ite communities.

"The wall is one of the centrepieces of a new strategy by coalition and Iraqi forces to break the cycle of sectarian violence," Sergeant Mike Pryor, a public affairs officer, wrote in an article released by the U.S. military.

Senior U.S. military officials in Baghdad said the wall was not intended to divide the capital into separate communities as part of a two-month-old security crackdown.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. And these walls are bomb-proof how?

[Jcrowley]

2. Kick and Rec n/t

[pocoloco]

3. Better put a roof on it also!

[Selatius]

4. It sounds like the US is building a de facto ghetto for Sunnis.

Disgraceful...

[malaise]

5. Bingo

More madness.