Carsten Kofoed: Walls of extermination

Walls of extermination

By Carsten Kofoed, Free Iraq Blog of Denmark, April 25, 2007

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.

Of course, the problem of the occupying power with these “wall areas” is not the security for the Iraqis whom it maltreats and murders every single day, but the fact that the areas are liberated, and that the resistance fighters are swimming like fish in the sea there.

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.

Sent as a comment (150 words maximum) to the Danish press on April 25, 2007. Published in the two Danish dailies MetroXpress (April 26, 2007) and Information (April 27, 2007).