The 600-Mile Great Wall of Saudi Arabia

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[Arkain2K]

The Great Wall of Saudi Arabia: Royal Family Constructing 600-Mile Barrier on Iraqi Border to Keep ISIS Militants Out

In response to the growing threat posed by the Islamic State terrorist group, the royal family of Saudi Arabia is having a 600-mile barrier constructed to completely block the Iraqi portion of the Saudi northern border, hoping to prevent ISIS militants from infiltrating the kingdom.

The planned fence structure will span the entire distance of the Iraq-Saudi border, from Jordan to Kuwait. The border barrier system will feature five layers of barbed wire fencing, a ditch, a patrol road, 240 rapid response vehicles, underground motion sensors, 40 watchtowers, radar, day/night cameras, seven command centers, 28 communication towers, 32 military response stations (equipped with helipads), and three rapid intervention teams. The entire system will also be connected through a fibre-optic communications network.

The idea for the "great wall" was first proposed during the height of the United States' invasion of Iraq in 2006. But, construction on the barrier did not begin until last September, after the Islamic State conquered large swaths of the neighboring Anbar province in Iraq.

The Telegraph reports that the Saudi government's urgency in completing the barrier has been renewed after ISIS militants attempted to infiltrate the border in early January near the Saudi border town of Arar. When the Saudi border patrol tried to halt the militants from crossing the border, the ensuing altercation left three border guards dead, including one of the top Saudi border commanders in the region. Four ISIS militants were also killed in the incident.

In response to the incident, the Saudi military has sent an additional 30,000 troops to secure the border area.

Some security analysts have labeled the incident ISIS' first attack on the Saudi Kingdom. However, it is unclear whehther attack would have actually happened if the border patrol had not spotted the militants crossing the border.

In late November, ISIS announced that it is planning to expand the caliphate into the Arabian Peninsula. With Saudi Arabia being the birthplace of Islam and also housing the religion's two most sacred holy sites, "The Holy Mosques" of Mecca and Medina, ISIS' quest of conquering Saudi Arabia is an ever-present goal for any Islamic militant group looking to further solidify its Islamic caliphate.

In the past few months, ISIS' top leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has called on Sunni extremists in Saudi Arabia to carry out attacks inside Saudi Arabia. Judging by the increase in violence against Shiite Muslims in the eastern Saudi town of al-Awamiya, Newsweek reports that Sunni extremists have likely started answering the caliph's call.

The Saudi government has taken other steps to help prevent the influence of the Islamic State from permeating into the country. The Daily Mail reports that the Saudi government has mobilized Sunni clerics to criticize the ISIS rhetoric as "deviant." In December, Saudi police arrested 135 people linked to terrorist organizations, such as ISIS.

In August, Saudi Arabia donated over 100 million to the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre in New York. Additionally, Saudi forces have also joined the U.S.-coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State's operations in Syria.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/t...aqi-border-to-keep-isis-militants-out-132793/

 

[SolidIce]

They gonna need a southern wall now.

 

[clmetal]

According to posters in the war room, this wall is useless and nothing illegals can't overcome.

I was thinking the same thing. When it comes to our southern border, we are told a physical barrier wouldn't stop anyone. Meanwhile Israel has a high tech fence that seems to be working pretty well

 

[Arkain2K]

Time to reinforce that southern wall!

Yemen rebels attack Saudi border, dozens dead

Saudi Arabia said its forces killed dozens of Iran-backed rebels from Yemen who launched their first major attack on the kingdom since Saudi-led air strikes began last month.

Three Saudi soldiers also died in the battle after the rebels targeted their observation posts, the defence ministry said, as its army repelled the assault.

There have been deadly skirmishes before but this is the first time the Saudi military has reported a full-scale Huthi attack on its borders.

http://news.yahoo.com/gulf-ministers-meet-yemen-conflict-rages-135648290.html

Saudi Arabia's new Yemen strategy: get behind a fence

Saudi Arabia is increasingly taking a security-first approach to neighboring Yemen, where Houthi rebels have all but seized power, wanting nothing better than to finish a new border fence and then slam shut the gates.

Riyadh convened a meeting of Gulf countries on Wednesday to threaten unspecified measures to "protect their interests" in Yemen where the Shi'ite Muslim rebels, allies of its enemy Iran, are holding the president a virtual prisoner.

But unlike in the past, the kingdom wields little influence across its border and has few established ties to Yemen's new powerbrokers. It has already suspended aid payments, its most potent leverage in the country.

That will compel the Houthis, and by extension Iran, to foot the substantial bill for keeping Yemen afloat if they want to govern the poorest Arab country without Riyadh's support.

Saudi analysts say the priority is sealing the mountainous Yemeni border - where Houthis killed around 200 Saudi soldiers in a brief war four years ago - with a fence modeled on its expensive frontier defenses with Iraq.


http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0KV1VH20150122

 

[Oedad]

I was thinking the same thing. When it comes to our southern border, we are told a physical barrier wouldn't stop anyone. Meanwhile Israel has a high tech fence that seems to be working pretty well

Of course it works. The idiots here are bringing up the Maginot line like its proof static defenses don't work, but the Maginot line did its job perfectly the Germans never even dreamed of trying to push through the french border they knew that would of been the end of the third Reich right there. The french were even prepared for a German invasion into the low countries and responded well to the initial German moves. The problem arose in that the Germans knew what the french reaction to their initial advances in Belgium and the Netherlands would be. They were able to take advantage of French over commitment and flanked the majority of the french army by going through the Ardennes, terrain the allied high command thought was impassable and thus undefended, and cutting off the bulk of the allied combat units. The Allies made the same mistake in 1944 even though we knew the Germans could now move through the area we didn't think they had the capability to go on the offensive and left the area lightly defended, and almost had the same thing happen again.

If the Allied armies let the low countries fall and never overextended themselves the war would have been over in a year, but they were sure the Germans were going to try to go through Belgium again and thought they could stuff the German army right at the start.

 

[Rod1]

I was thinking the same thing. When it comes to our southern border, we are told a physical barrier wouldn't stop anyone. Meanwhile Israel has a high tech fence that seems to be working pretty well

Israel is a tiny country whose population lives close to said border, the majority of the US-Mexico border is desert and scarcely populated, the costs to make and man the wall would be astronomical.

 

[MadSquabbles500]

The US does not really need some wall along the border with mexico. Just let the police demand from anyone who looks Hispanic to show some form of ID that hopefully we have mastered so no one can rip it off.

If they don't have it, just lock them up for a bit like five years. Second offense, shoot them. Now yes that sounds harsh but it really is the best way to keep out unwanted persons.

And I don't have anything against Hispanics. But the best way to secure the borders is a harsh penalty for whoever violates it.

 

[oldshadow]

Israel is a tiny country whose population lives close to said border, the majority of the US-Mexico border is desert and scarcely populated, the costs to make and man the wall would be astronomical.

You do understand we would not have to fence the places that crossing is so hard it is almost a death sentence. We could just use aircraft and sensors.

 

[Arkain2K]

Of course it works. The idiots here are bringing up the Maginot line like its proof static defenses don't work, but the Maginot line did its job perfectly the Germans never even dreamed of trying to push through the french border they knew that would of been the end of the third Reich right there. The french were even prepared for a German invasion into the low countries and responded well to the initial German moves. The problem arose in that the Germans knew what the french reaction to their initial advances in Belgium and the Netherlands would be. They were able to take advantage of French over commitment and flanked the majority of the french army by going through the Ardennes, terrain the allied high command thought was impassable and thus undefended, and cutting off the bulk of the allied combat units. The Allies made the same mistake in 1944 even though we knew the Germans could now move through the area we didn't think they had the capability to go on the offensive and left the area lightly defended, and almost had the same thing happen again.

If the Allied armies let the low countries fall and never overextended themselves the war would have been over in a year, but they were sure the Germans were going to try to go through Belgium again and thought they could stuff the German army right at the start.

Saudi Arabia better fortify that wall and extend it a few more miles, just in case the Iranians marches through Kuwait...

 

[wlu29]

Did they get Mexicans to pay for it?

 

[Arkain2K]

Did they get Mexicans to pay for it?

America, probably.

 

[LucasWithLidOff]

The House of Saud..... your days are numbered.

 

[oldshadow]

The House of Saud..... your days are numbered.

Shia?

 

[in the]

What else can they do, the corrupt morons created Jihadistan on their Northern border and now they've realized that they can't control the horrific monster they unleashed. They are just awakening to the reality that all these Sunni maniacs in the desert to the North are never going away.

Payback is a bitch. Btw, Turkey, you are going to be enjoying the same situation because of your sins.

I absolutely couldn't agree more.