West Baghdad Walls Cause Murders To Plunge
(CBS) Six months ago, it was an al Qaeda paradise of murder and misery — Wild West Baghdad.
Col. J.B. Burton has the job of protecting 1 million people there.
His soldiers put down miles of concrete barriers along highways and community entrances to block carloads of al Qaeda thugs from attacking neighborhoods here called “mulhallas.”
“Well they were just getting off the highway, and then exiting the highway back into these mulhallas, where they can prosecute their campaign of terror,” Col. Burton said.
If good fences can make good neighbors, then in Baghdad, good walls can help make safer neighborhoods. Across West Baghdad, since these walls were put in place last November, the homicide rate has dropped from 275 a week to just ten a week.
It sounds like progress. Good news. Something everyone could agree on.
But not in Baghdad, which is more and more becoming walled off like a medieval city.
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