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Saudi Arabia enrages Yemen with fence
2004-02-11
EFL & Buttloads of Fun!
Saudi Arabia, one of the largest suppliers of terrorists most vocal critics in the Arab world of Israel’s right to defend itself "security fence" in the West Bank, is quietly emulating the Israeli example by erecting a barrier along its porous border with Yemen.
No hypocrisy here. Move Along. Nothing to see....And what is it they are concerned about?
The barrier is part of a plan to erect what will be an electronic surveillance system along the length of the kingdom’s frontiers - land, air and sea. Behind the plan is a deep-seated lack of trust in the Yemeni authorities’ ability to arrest infiltrators before they became indentured servants make it into Saudi territory.
I was thinking maybe the Soddys were concerned about the Chat flow.
A Yemeni delegation arrived in Jeddah for emergency talks a puff on the Hookah and wad Chat on the issue yesterday, after submitting an official complaint. Saudi officials have combated drug, alcohol, luxury-goods and arms smuggling across the mountainous and porous border with Yemen for years. And they have paid a high price in their battles with the smugglers.
What kind of ‘luxury-goods’ could be flowing from Yemen to Soddy?
In 2002, 36 Saudi border guards were killed in Jizan, a southern Saudi border town. The government says the smugglers provide the explosives and weapons used by radical Islamists inside the kingdom, who carried out two suicide attacks against civilian targets last year, killing more than 50 and injuring hundreds.
WAIT! There are radical Islamists inside the kingdom? Since when?
Posted by:Dragon Fly

#5  Just as "there is a difference between Socialist lobotomies and Capitalist lobotomies" (said by a leftist in Cuba), we need to understand there is a difference between an Arab wall and a Jewish/Zionist/Crusader wall.
Posted by: Jackal   2004-2-11 10:04:11 PM  

#4  Damn--they're building fences like they're going out of style all over the Middle East! Time to buy some stock in Home al-Depot.
Posted by: Dar   2004-2-11 12:29:13 PM  

#3  What kind of ‘luxury-goods’ could be flowing from Yemen to Soddy?
Ten year old wimmin?
Posted by: GK   2004-2-11 10:00:20 AM  

#2  First of all, like everything in that area, it's tribal. And smuggling is a national sport for both Soddis and Yemenis.

The fence "could" be built though the geography makes it very expensive. And patrolling the fence relies on the Soddi forces being willing to get off their duff's and do some work for a change. My guess is that this is just an extortion attempt and once the right Soddi palms are greased, the issue will disappear.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins   2004-2-11 8:55:08 AM  

#1  Is this the "cement filled pipeline" or are they branching out?
Posted by: tu3031   2004-2-11 8:54:56 AM  

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