US builds walls to quell Baghdad violence

04/22/2007

UK Mail & Guardian News
April 22, 2007


(Baghdad, Iraq) -- The United States military intends to proceed with its plan to erect concrete walls around Baghdad hot spots, the military said, even as one such experiment in a dangerous Sunni enclave faces criticism.

Brigadier General John Campbell, a top military commander in Baghdad, said these walls aimed to protect the people from "terrorists" and the "intent is not to divide the city along sectarian lines".

Since April 10, US forces have been constructing a 5km wall made of six-tonne concrete sections around Baghdad's notorious Sunni district of Adhamiyah.

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