US forces to wall off Baghdad streets

news.com.au ^ | April 11 2007

[gitmogrunt]

"US FORCES in Baghdad are planning to seal off vast areas of the city "

Then call in the B-52's, which should have been done years ago....

(Politically correct warfighting flames up)

[reagan_fanatic]

No bias here

Exactly. By 'imprisoning' someone, you are keeping them in one place and not allowing them freedom of movement.

The residents will still be able to travel in and around Baghdad, it will just take them longer to do so.

Once again, the MSM is showing their true colors.

[Allegra]

Some streets have been walled for a while. This is Sadoon Street about a year ago.

[HaveHadEnough]

We are making the SUNNI GHETTO right now. Just you watch and some democrat lunatic will accuse us of the same tactics the Nazis used in Warsaw 1943.

Or the Russians in Berlin. Don't give them any ideas.

[LibLieSlayer]

The sooner we line up media liars like this one against the wall and shoot them dead, the sooner the truth will once again be told to the American People!

LLS

[Wiz]

The ID cards will need some type of IC chip and 2D barcodes to avoid fake ID cards to be used for passing checkpoints.

[Wiz]

The real “Genesis” was the British counterinsurgency in Malaya

That's fresh news. I thought Vietnam was the first case and never knew we borrowed it from the British.

[glorgau]

Good fences make good neighbors.

[Marine_Uncle]

About time these methods where put in place. I had preached to some Freepers in the past as how walling off say Sadr City would in essence simmer down hostile Shia. And walls can keep goons out of neighorhoods where they come to kill others.
It could be a mixed blessing. Besides this is not the first time this has been done in Iraq. One only has to think back a half year ago when the US Army created a berm around ar Rutbah in hopes of isolating the city from easy access by foreign fighters that used the city as a jump point when entering Iraq from Jordan, upper NE corner of Saudi Arabia and of course western Syria.