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10-02-06, 10:03 AM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/10/01/wirq01.xml
Saudis build 550-mile fence to shut out Iraq
Harry de Quetteville, Middle East Correspondent
(Filed: 01/10/2006)
Security in Iraq has collapsed so dramatically that Saudi Arabia has ordered the construction of a 550-mile high-tech fence to seal off its troubled northern neighbour.
The huge project to build the barrier, which will be equipped with ultraviolet night-vision cameras, buried sensor cables and thousands of miles of barbed wire, will snake across the vast and remote desert frontier between the countries.
Saudis build 550-mile fence to shut out Iraq
Harry de Quetteville, Middle East Correspondent
(Filed: 01/10/2006)
Security in Iraq has collapsed so dramatically that Saudi Arabia has ordered the construction of a 550-mile high-tech fence to seal off its troubled northern neighbour.
The huge project to build the barrier, which will be equipped with ultraviolet night-vision cameras, buried sensor cables and thousands of miles of barbed wire, will snake across the vast and remote desert frontier between the countries.