Saudi Arabia is constructing a 600-mile great wall along its border with Iraq to keep ISIS and other extremists at bay. Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Robert Jordan revealed on Happening Now that the plans for the wall date back to 2003, when the late King Abdullah asked for U.S. planes to patrol the northern border to keep out drug traffickers and militants. Jordan said that the U.S. didnt have the assets at the time, so for the last 7 to 8 years, Saudi Arabia has been tendering bids for some sort of border security system, finally beginning construction in September. Jordan added that the high-tech, state of the art wall - which will have five layers of fencing, some of which are 125 feet high - isnt just intended to keep ISIS militants out, but also to prevent Iranian Shiite militants from entering Saudi Arabia through Iraq. Jordan said that Saudi Arabia is also looking at doing the same thing with the countrys 1,000-mile southern border with Yemen.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:59:08 +0000
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