US paradox of construction and destruction
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Did you know Trivia - Recent building activity in Iraq has taken place amid growing violence. Contractors operate equipment under the crackle of automatic weapon fire and with the protection of M-1 tanks, Stryker vehicles and Apache helicopters. The workers and engineers in this case are constructing a series of walls to block certain areas of Sadr City, the vast Shi'ite slum in Baghdad.
Dozens of walls have already been built around Baghdad, the southern city of Basra and other Iraqi cities, creating segregated ethnic Sunni and Shi'ite neighborhoods ringed with checkpoints and command posts. The latest flurry of construction activity has little to do with nation building, but rather is more related to a deteriorating security environment.
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Saturday 26 April, 2008 05:22 AM |
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