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Saudis Building Their Own Border Fence
Saudi Arabia is starting to look a lot like south Texas, and it’s not just the oil derricks.
The Saudis are pumping $5 billion into a border fence to keep out illegal immigrants and potential terrorists, with a significant portion going to seal off the Iraqi border.
Plans call for a 550-mile fence between Saudi Arabia and Iraq, bolstered by an electronic fence along the Red Sea to separate the Saudi sheiks from neighboring Jordan and Yemen.
As the controversy over U.S. efforts to fence off its border with Mexico continues to percolate, the Saudi fence is getting little media attention.
So, just why haven’t we been hearing about this? The Saudis want to protect their borders. Shouldn’t the pro-illegals be over there protesting?
Termed the “MIKSA†project, the overall plan also calls for an extensive telecommunications network, 225 radar installations and 400 border posts housing 20,000 troops, according to Middle East News.
Security experts say the fence has taken on new urgency in Saudi Arabia amid fears that U.S. peacekeeping efforts in Iraq will fail, resulting in regional chaos and an expansion of terrorism.
Saudi officials deny such concerns.
“This is not an anti-terrorism project,†a top Saudi security official tells Newsmax. “This is an anti-illegal immigration project.â€
Seems reasonable to me. But then, I’m just a ‘racist’, don’cha know.
The cost of the Saudi Arabia – Iraq segment, the official noted, is estimated at around $1.5 billion.
“This project was supposed to have happened 10 years ago, but we didn’t have the budget,†the Saudi official says.
Yeah, right. The Saudis are just so poor. (snicker)
The Saudi border fence should prove much more formidable than its U.S. counterpart.
Pfft! What we’ve got wouldn’t keep a peacock out, much less a group of criminals.
Anyone wanting to slip illegally into Saudi Arabia would be forced to: climb a series of high sand berms; scale a high fence girded with razor wire on top and bottom; creep along a 50-yard stretch of no-man’s land; clamber over a barbed-wire pyramid; cross another open 50 yards; and shinny over a second barbed-wired fence all while avoiding detection by ultraviolet sensors, night vision cameras, buried movement sensors and patrol dogs.
You mean to tell me we, the ‘richest’ country in the world, can’t afford a few billion to protect the citizens from the illegal invasion from the south?
H/T: Mark Albertini
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