Saudi builds northern border fence against infiltrators

[lostinblue 1,989]

Saudi builds northern border fence against infiltrators

eddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - Saudi Arabia has inaugurated a multilayered fence along its northern borders, as part of efforts to secure the kingdom's vast desert frontiers against infiltrators and smugglers, state media said.

King Abdullah announced late Friday the launch of the first stage of a border security programme, covering 900 kilometres (560 miles) of the northern frontier, SPA state news agency reported.

SPA did not name Iraq, Saudi Arabia's neighbour to the north, referring only to the northern frontier, but the two countries' common border stretches over 800 kilometres (500 miles).

The project includes five layers of fencing which will cut the "number of infiltrators, drug, arms and cattle smugglers to zero," SPA said.

It said surveillance would be reinforced by watch towers, night-vision cameras and 50 radars.

Control complexes have been built in areas stretching from Hafr al-Batin in the northeast to Turaif near the Jordanian border, SPA said.

Relations between Iraq and Saudi Arabia have been deeply strained.

Riyadh has accused outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of creating the conditions for the jihadist insurgency in his country by marginalising its Sunni Arab minority.

Maliki in turn has accused the oil-rich kingdom of supporting "terrorism" in Shiite-majority Iraq.

In July 2009, Riyadh signed a deal with European aerospace and defence contractors EADS to build a high-tech security fence on 9,000 kilometres (5,600 miles) of the country's borders.

The original aim was to secure the Saudi border with Iraq with fencing and high-tech monitoring.

But with increased worries over infiltration by anti-government militants and Al-Qaeda, the Saudi interior ministry expanded the scope of the programme to fence and electronically monitor all the country's borders.

http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-builds-northern-border-fence-against-infiltrators-173044898.html

The project includes five layers of fencing which will cut the "number of infiltrators, drug, arms and cattle smugglers to zero," SPA said.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yeah they probably also build unnecessary motorways to nowhere so the aristocracy can have their own private race track.

[Dan and Judy 614]

seems like a reasonable thing to do

[lostinblue 1,989]

seems like a reasonable thing to do

Undocumented democrats must not fit into the equation .

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

How anyone can profess to support American values - you know, freedom and liberty - and then turn around and have a hard-on for the Saudis is beyond me.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

How anyone can profess to support American values - you know, freedom and liberty - and then turn around and have a hard-on for the Saudis is beyond me.

Considering that Saudis were the 9/11 hijackers as well...

[Dan and Judy 614]

How anyone can profess to support American values - you know, freedom and liberty - and then turn around and have a hard-on for the Saudis is beyond me.

I think it's the dresses

[Curmudgeon 227]

Some cynical ####### on the extreme right of US politics is extremely good at propaganda and manipulation. The Saudis, a model for all that is right and good? Yes, because they built a fence it must be the right thing to do. Get building America, your borders need YOU!

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

How anyone can profess to support American values - you know, freedom and liberty - and then turn around and have a hard-on for the Saudis is beyond me.

It's the gambling aspect. You unwrap a burka you never know what is under it.

Maybe something like this on the border

or this

[JohnR! 5,495]

I believe the answer to be obvious. If it's good for the Saudis, it must be good for America.

We could hire cheap Soviet labor to build another Berlin wall along the border with Canada and Mexico, and of course, along our shores and especially around aiports.

#facepalmonsteroids

How anyone can profess to support American values - you know, freedom and liberty - and then turn around and have a hard-on for the Saudis is beyond me.

[Dan and Judy 614]

why would a fence on our southern border be a bad thing?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

why would a fence on our southern border be a bad thing?

Because as long as there is a reason to come, they will. They will find a way around it

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

why would a fence on our southern border be a bad thing?

Expensive, impractical?

[Dan and Judy 614]

Expensive, impractical?

We could cut costs by having the illegals build it.

[Dan and Judy 614]

Expensive, impractical?

It can't be more expensive than catching and caring for 16,000 kids every month.