Arab Media Blast Iraqi Plan for Wall Around Shi'ite Town

Iraq's Shi'ite-dominated government and officials in the Shi'ite holy city of Karbala are building a wall to defend their city from nearby Sunni-dominated Anbar province. In recent months, Iraq's Sunni leaders have decried a similar government project to build a wall around the capital, Baghdad. Earthmovers dig trenches and pile rock onto makeshift barriers around the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in a project Sunni political leaders describe as a wall to...

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