Bad News
April 21st, 2007A senior Sunni politician has condemned a US military project to build a concrete wall around a Sunni enclave in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. US forces say the wall, which will separate Adhamiya from nearby Shia districts, aims to prevent sectarian violence between the two communities. But Adnan al-Dulaimi, who heads the biggest Sunni bloc in parliament, says it will breed yet more strife.
Some Adhamiya residents have said the wall will make their district a prison.
“The Americans will provoke more trouble with this,” one resident, Arkan Saeed, told the BBC. “They’re telling us the wall is to protect us from the Shia militia and they’re telling the Shia they’re protecting them from us. “But it’s the Americans who started all the sectarian violence in the first place.”
re: the bold — shut up, Arkan Saeed! You Shias and Shiites have been dying to stir the shiit for decades and centuries. We didn’t start it — some disagreement between people from your respective tribes started it thousands of years ago and you guys won’t let it go.
Besides that, you’re absolutely right, Arkan Saeed! The wall is ridiculous. It’ll foster tensions and get blown to hell putting us back to square one and adding a big old debt under the charge of “stupid ass idea.”