US to re-assess Baghdad wall after PM orders halt

04/23/2007

04-23-2007
BAGHDAD (AFP)


The US military said Monday it will re-assess measures to secure Baghdad after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered it to stop building a concrete wall around a dangerous Sunni enclave.

"We are aware of what the press has reported that the prime minister said," US military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Garver said in an email to AFP.

"The government of Iraq and multinational forces in Iraq do agree that we need to protect the people of Iraq," he added.

"How that is done is always being discussed and we will continue that dialogue. We will coordinate with the Iraqi government and Iraqi commanders in order to establish effective, appropriate security measures."