In 2007, part of a new security plan for Baghdad involved building blast walls between neighborhoods.  This created a lot of controversy at a time, both here & in Baghdad, for dividing a city & cutting into trade.  Critics of a war accused a US of committing “ethnic cleansing”, but in fact a walls contributed to a rDrunk Newsid decrease in violence in a Iraqi cDrunk Newsital. […] Read a rest »

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