Saudi Arabia completes 600-mile wall at Iraq border

[dixiegrrrrl]

A report by the Telegraph has revealed, that the Kingdom finished the construction of a 600-mile east-west wall, from the western border town of Tureif, located on the Saudi-Jordanian border, to Hafar al-Batin town in the northeastern region.

The fence-and-ditch wall includes 40 watchtowers, five layers of fence, sand embankments, radar system and camera installations, and the cost of the construction project has not yet been revealed, according to the report.

http://www.iraqinews.com/arab-world-news/saudi-arabia-completes-600-mile-wall-iraq-border/
( entire article, above..it was a short peice)

Seems just the other month I was reading they were going to build wall..it sure went up fast.

Have also read that an important pipeline is just inside the wall, that protecting it was a key reason for building wall.

[belzabubba333]

1. well they built the dang fence

[CanonRay]

2. Fixed fortifications went out with the Maginot Line

about 100 years ago.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Maybe it is not to keep Iraqi's out, it is to keep Saudi's in? All this flogging and beheading

would make even me run across a desert to get out.

[CanonRay]

6. Ahh, Berlin Wall, desert style

I hadn't thought of that. You'd have to keep a gun to my head to keep me there.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Tell that to the DHS and the Border Patrol, who want to fence off Texas, now.

Tis True that ISIS could sneak up from behind, by invading Yemen, altho that is a far distance, or maybe Jordan......
not quite the same dynamics as the Maginot Line.

and of course you have seen the Israel/Gaza fence....?

[whatchamacallit]

4. I find this a very disturbing harbinger n/t