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| Abdullah, Saleh to Discuss Border Fence |
| 2004-02-17 |
| EFL. Meanwhile, Hansa Luftbild is leaning on its shovels with a US$ 986 million contract in the pocket. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is expected in Riyadh for talks with Crown Prince Abdullah, deputy premier and commander of the National Guard, in a bid to calm tension over a Saudi border screen, Yemeni official sources said yesterday. Theyâve been arguing for over 70 years and with each treaty S.A. inches further south. This disagreement will run on a few more years. Salehâs talks in the Kingdom follow last weekâs meetings that brought together Yemeni and Saudi border and security officials for discussions over the fence, which Yemen says is being built in a common area designated by a 2000 border treaty as a free grazing area. See map at this link. Yemeni officials say the barrier violates the 2000 Jeddah treaty, which stipulates that an area of 20 kilometers along the line of the border be allocated for pasturing activities from both sides of the border. However, Lt. Gen. Talal Angawi, director general of the Saudi Border Guard, said in remarks last week that the concrete-filled pipeline, was being laid inside the Saudi territory. He said the fence aimed to curb infiltration and arms smuggling operations across the borders into Saudi territory. Angawi also dismissed comparisons in some Yemeni opposition newspapers between the Saudi barrier and Israelâs barrier through the West Bank. And the difference isâŠâŠ.? âWhat is being constructed inside our borders with Yemen is a sort of screen ... which aims to prevent infiltration and smuggling,â Anqawi told Asharq Al-Awsat, a sister publication of Arab News. âIt does not resemble a wall in any way.â M-W online: Wall 1 a : a high thick masonry structure forming a long rampart or an enclosure chiefly for defense 6 : something resembling a wall (as in appearance, function, or effect) |
| Posted by:GK |
| #5 O'er the ramparts we watch as the Arabs equiv-o-cate.... Anqawi, if it functions like a wall, then it's a wall. |
| Posted by: GK 2004-2-17 5:28:23 PM |
| #4 Actually, most of Israel's "wall" is just a fence. The wall is only a small portion of it. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2004-2-17 2:29:19 PM |
| #3 RC: It's a concrete filled pipeline. You know, like in that Robert Frost poem - "Something there is that doesn't love a concrete-filled pipeline, that want's it down". |
| Posted by: SteveS 2004-2-17 1:18:10 PM |
| #2 "It's not a wall ! It's a, uh, a pedestrian obstructive device. Yeah, that's what it is !" |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H 2004-2-17 11:50:38 AM |
| #1 OK, if it doesn't resemble a wall, what does it look like? A picket fence? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-2-17 9:57:16 AM |