Saudi Security Fence

No, this isn’t the U.S. – Mexico border fence, this is the fence Saudi Arabia is going to build on it’s border with Iraq. I guess democracies need fences, you know, to keep in the freedom. 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. The fence will be built despite the hundreds of millions of pounds that the Saudi kingdom has spent in the past two years to beef up patrols on its border with Iraq, with officials saying the crisis in Iraq is now so dangerous it must be physically shut out. "Surveillance has already been stepped up over the past 18 months," said Nawaf Obaid, the director of the Saudi National Security Assessment Project, an institute that advises the government on security affairs. "But the feeling in Saudi is that Iraq is way out of control with no possibility of stability. The urgency now is to get that border sealed: physically sealed." Read More At: The Telegraph