Adhamiyah residents fear that the war would turn the district into a big prison. (Reuters) BAGHDAD — Sunnis residents of Al-Adhamiyah district in Baghdad were fuming Saturday, April 21, at US construction of a "security wall", saying it would harden the city's already bitter sectarian divisions and isolate Iraqis from one another.
"I'm astonished by the way officials think. Is that reasonable? Protecting Al-Adhamiyah by segregating it from adjacent neighborhoods?" Um Haider, 54, told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Branding the barrier a "weird idea", the housewife said the barrier is not a panacea to the city's deadly sectarian violence.
"Erecting concrete walls between neighborhoods is not a solution to the collapse in security and the rampant violence. If so, Baghdadis would find themselves in a maze of high walls overnight", she said.
On April 10, US paratroopers began hauling six-tonne (14,000-pound) sections of concrete wall into place around the Sunni district of Adhamiyah. MORE
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"I'm astonished by the way officials think. Is that reasonable? Protecting Al-Adhamiyah by segregating it from adjacent neighborhoods?" Um Haider, 54, told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Branding the barrier a "weird idea", the housewife said the barrier is not a panacea to the city's deadly sectarian violence.
"Erecting concrete walls between neighborhoods is not a solution to the collapse in security and the rampant violence. If so, Baghdadis would find themselves in a maze of high walls overnight", she said.
On April 10, US paratroopers began hauling six-tonne (14,000-pound) sections of concrete wall into place around the Sunni district of Adhamiyah. MORE
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1177155783704&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout