Walls of extermination

Carsten Kofoed, Free Iraq Blog of Denmark

The US is building a wall around the neighbourhood of Al-Adhamiyah in Baghdad. According to the Americans, this wall and the numerous others being on the drawing board are intended to protect Sunni Muslim inhabitants from attacks by Shia Muslim death squads. But as these murder gangs were brought to Iraq by the occupying power and now constitute a considerable part of the Iraqi puppet army, this is like getting the fox to guard the hen house. The walls are not only meant to cut off the strongly strengthened resistance movement from its strongholds in the capital, but also to establish the full control of the occupying power over these encircled areas. After this, the confined patriotic inhabitants – opponents of the occupation – will be left to the occupying power and its sectarian death squads. Therefore, there are so strong protests against the walls. Because on them, death is written...

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