Now we hear that Saudi Arabia is now planning to build a wall to separate itself from Iraq. As we already know, majority of the insurgents and suicide bombers in Al Queda or elsewhere are from Saudi Arabia and Saudi citizens are still funding a fundamentalist creed across the world. Its like Saudi Arabia is the nursery and treasury and Pakistan is the university of all these terrorists.
In any case, I am not very sure what's the point of building a wall. Do they think that that will stop the bored, idiotic, in-bred Saudi jihadi youth from nipping across to Iraq? Take a look at the map. What's stopping them from driving across Kuwait, or Jordan or Jordan/Syria into Iraq?
Ah!, they dont mind these jihadi's from going outside Saudi Arabia, they do mind them coming back in. Its like these incidents just did not happen. Can camels bury their heads in the sand?
Incidentally, every time I hear the word walls, I am reminded of GuruKobi's words:
Mind Without Fear
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up
into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason
has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action---
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up
into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason
has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action---
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
All this to be taken with a grain of piquant salt!!!
Riyadh - Saudi Arabia is to build a security wall "soon" along its northern borders with Iraq, according to a statement made by Saudi Interior Minister Prince Naif Bin Abdel-Aziz, local reports said Tuesday. According to the Saudi-based Arab News newspaper, the grand project is aimed at securing the 900-kilometre desert stretch along the border with Iraq by preventing the passage of militants and illegal foreigners into the kingdom.
The project comes as Saudi Arabia is increasingly worried that the turmoil in Iraq could cause "an overspill of sectarian violence and terrorism" into its own territories, according to the paper.
"The protection line will represent two rows of barbed wire equipped with the newest radar and infrared viewing devices," Mansur al-Turki, spokesman for the Interior Ministry, had told Arab News earlier. Cost of the wall is estimated at four billion Saudi Riyals.
Five major Saudi Arabian companies are currently bidding for the project. The contract for construction "will be awarded soon," according to the interior minister
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