Iraq's prime minister said on Sunday he had urged the U.S. military to halt work on a wall separating a Baghdad Sunni enclave from nearby Shi'ite areas after sharp criticism from some residents.
The cement wall around the district of Adhamiya is part of a new U.S. military tactic to protect flashpoint neighborhoods with barriers, in a security crackdown in the capital that is seen as a final attempt to halt civil war between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Arabs.
"I asked yesterday that it be stopped and that alternatives be found to protect the area," Maliki said in his first public comments on the issue.
"I said that I fear this wall might have repercussions which remind us of other walls, which we reject," he added.
Some Adhamiya residents have compared the wall to barriers erected by Israel in the occupied West Bank.
You know it is just one fuck up after another. I wonder if this is part of the so-called "surge", because if this is the best we can do then we are even worse off then even I thought.
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