Then and Now, Them and Us

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U.S. Erects Baghdad Wall to Keep Sects Apart
-- New York Times, April 21, 2007

UPDATE

Apr. 23, 2007

Juan Cole reports that Iraq's "Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki asked Sunday that the US military halt its construction of a security wall around the Sunni Arab district of Adhamiya."

The mainstream US media will sidestep this point, but al-Maliki pretty explicitly said that the reason he called off the wall building is that he doesn't want his government compared to that of Israel.

On the other hand:

Nassar al-Rubaie, a Sadrist member of the Iraqi parliament, did warn that the US is building a series of Berlin Walls in Baghdad.