Saudi Arabia to fence 560 mile desert border with Iraq

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SAUDI ARABIA has invited bids for the construction of a security fence along the entire length of its 900km (560mile) desert border with Iraq in a multimillion-pound project that will attract interest from British defence companies.

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Saudi Arabia is concerned that the chaos in Iraq could cause an overspill of sectarian violence and terrorism. The kingdom claims to be winning the battle against al-Qaeda’s Saudi wing but wants to protect itself against Saudi insurgents returning from Iraq.

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Riyadh is worried by the rise to power in Iraq of the Shia majority, with its close links with Iran, which Saudi Arabia mistrusts. It is concerned that its Shia minority, which is concentrated in the oil-producing eastern province, may become radicalised.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2126835,00.html

[I'm Gone 60]

SAUDI ARABIA has invited bids for the construction of a security fence along the entire length of its 900km (560mile) desert border with Iraq in a multimillion-pound project that will attract interest from British defence companies.

How dare they treat those poor undocumented terrorists that way. LOL

[munchkins 0]

SAUDI ARABIA has invited bids for the construction of a security fence along the entire length of its 900km (560mile) desert border with Iraq in a multimillion-pound project that will attract interest from British defence companies.

How dare they treat those poor undocumented terrorists that way. LOL

Disgraceful!!!!!

[Fischkoepfin 1]

What is this, the century of the endless fences???

[PsychoKat 0]

What is this, the century of the endless fences???

I think the eventual goal is to surround each country with a fence .....and maybe a moat. If we do that then those that the fences are being built to keep out will be left with no other choice then to all gather together on an uninhabited island

.....with no where to go and nothing left to do but dream

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SAUDI ARABIA has invited bids for the construction of a security fence along the entire length of its 900km (560mile) desert border with Iraq in a multimillion-pound project that will attract interest from British defence companies.

How dare they treat those poor undocumented terrorists that way. LOL

Except the people the Saudi regime wants to keep out aren't undocumented at all... they're SAUDIS.

And this article reminds me of the countless times I have heard ID10T's on TV say a border can't be build on our southern border because large tracts of it are desert....

[I'm Gone 60]

I think the eventual goal is to surround each country with a fence .....and maybe a moat.

That's castles had moats around them to keep out undocumented serfs and peasants. LOL

[almaty 19]

fences make good neighbors...

[Ban Hammer 13,475]

fences make good neighbors...

especially when it's electric

[sukie175 0]

each to their own

[Tiksman 0]

I have been on that border and what would be there 560 miles of fence and that is it.. Damm sand

[Jasman0717 9]

[Tiksman 0]

I have pictures if anyone wants to see

[iceyspots 0]

That's one biiig fence

[silvanski 1]

All together now!!!

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above

Don't fence me in

Let me ride through the wide open country that I love

Don't fence me in

Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze

And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees

Send me off forever but I ask you please

Don't fence me in

Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle

Underneath the western skies

On my cayuse, let me wander over yonder

Till I see the mountains rise

I want to ride to the ridge where the West commences

And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses

And I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences

Don't fence me in

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies

Don't fence me in

Let me ride through the wide country that I love

Don't fence me in

Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze

And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees

Send me off forever but I ask you please

Don't fence me in

Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle

Underneath the western skies (do do-do, do do do-do-do-do)

On my cayuse, let me wander over yonder

Till I see the mountains rise (ba be ba ba ba)

I want to ride to the ridge where the West commences

And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses

And I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences

Don't fence me in, no

Pop, oh don't you fence me in