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Saudis pressing ahead with fence on Iraq border: minister Agence France-Presse - 15 November, 2006 www.gulfinthemedia.com/index.php?id=261165&news_type=Top〈=en&PHPSESSID=4edd8cb6af8d02c7b5d3cf52ca89de5f Saudi Arabia will press ahead with plans to build a massive security fence along its borders with Iraq to prevent infiltration of "terrorists," the interior minister said in an interview published Tuesday. Construction of the double-track barbed fence, which will be fitted with remote sensors and thermal cameras, will begin next year, Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz told Al Anbaa Kuwaiti newspaper. "Authorities in Saudi Arabia have begun the executive measures to build the largest security fence that extends along the 900-km (562-miles) border...

11/14/2006 11:20:28 PM Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz has said that Saudi Arabia will go ahead with the construction of a security fence to seal off the border with Iraq to prevent the entry al-Qaeda fighters as well as drug dealers, weapon smugglers and potentially large numbers of Iraqi refugees. The construction of the 900-km fence expected to begin next year and take up to six years is part of the larger electronic shield which the kingdom plans to build to secure its northern, western and southern borders. The $12bn project will use devices such as remote sensors...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi Arabia's interior minister on Sunday called Iraq a major base for terrorism, a sign of growing alarm over the neighboring country where U.S. forces are struggling to prevent Sunni-Shiite violence from escalating into full-scale civil war. Saudi Interior Minister Prince Naif said the situation in Iraq is deteriorating daily and the country has become a threat to the whole region. ``There is no doubt that Iraq now forms a main base for terrorism,'' he told the pan-Arab Al-Arabiya television station in the capital Riyadh. ``The situation in Iraq is changing day after day, and...

As part of its battle against terrorism, Saudi Arabia has recently announced a plan to build an 814-kilometer security fence along its border with Iraq. The project, which will take several years to compete, will also include the construction of military bases and checkpoints along the border. At present, the Saudi border-patrol maintains some 40 bases along the Iraqi border in attempt to stop the infiltration of drug and arms smugglers, wanted terrorists, and illegal immigrants from Iraq into Saudi Arabia. [1] It should be noted that in 2004, Saudi Arabia began to construct a separation barrier along its border...

Security in Iraq has collapsed so dramatically that Saudi Arabia has ordered the construction of a 550-mile high-tech fence to seal off its troubled northern neighbour. The huge project to build the barrier, which will be equipped with ultraviolet night-vision cameras, buried sensor cables and thousands of miles of barbed wire, will snake across the vast and remote desert frontier between the countries. The fence will be built despite the hundreds of millions of pounds that the Saudi kingdom has spent in the past two years to beef up patrols on its border with Iraq, with officials saying the crisis...

Riyad, 28 Sept. (AKI) - Saudi Arabia has announced that it is pushing ahead with plans to build a fence along its border with Iraq. The 900 kilometre fence will be build to improve security and bar terrorists from crossing into Iraq, as well as to prevent smuggling. The barricade will cost an estimated 12 billion dollars, and will take between five to six years to construct. A Saudi security adviser, Nawaf Obaid, said: "The main issue is to seal the border on the Iraqi side since there has been almost no [Iraqi security] presence since the US invasion". Iraqi...

GUWAHATI: India has said its border with Bangladesh along the northeastern state of Assam will be completely sealed with barbed wire fencing by the year-end to prevent illegal infiltration from the neighbouring country. "We have set a deadline to complete fencing the border by the end of the year, besides replacing old fencing with new ones", B. S. Lalli, a senior Indian home ministry official, told journalists in Guwahati, capital city of Assam state, PTI reported. Assam shares a 272-kilometer land border with Bangladesh, besides some 90 kilometer of river border guarded by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) troopers on...

JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA - Apparently concerned that fighting in Iraq could spill over into this oil-rich kingdom, Saudi Arabia is considering a major fortification of its 500-mile border with Iraq. "The government is thinking of building an electrified fence along the whole border with Iraq in case things go really badly in Iraq, and it starts falling apart," says a security adviser to the Saudi government, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the government has not made any official announcement of such plans.It has, however, admitted that it is looking at strengthening its border defenses."We are currently conducting a...

SAUDI Arabia has invited bids for the construction of a security fence along the whole length of its 560-mile desert border with Iraq. The proposed state-of-the-art barrier is part of a comprehensive, hi-tech package to secure the Kingdom's 4,100 miles of borders in order both to improve internal security and bolster the oil-rich Kingdom's defences against external threats. Saudi Arabia is concerned the chaos in neighbouring Iraq could cause an overspill of sectarian violence and terrorism.

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Do you have a problem with illegal immigrants? Here comes the solution! "Saudi Arabia has invited bids for the construction of a security fence along the entire length of its 900km (560mile) desert border with Iraq in a multimillion-pound project that will attract interest from British defence companies. The barrier is part of a package to secure the Kingdom’s 6,500km of borders in an attempt to improve internal security and bolster its defences against external threats."

SAUDI ARABIA has invited bids for the construction of a security fence along the entire length of its 900km (560mile) desert border with Iraq in a multimillion-pound project that will attract interest from British defence companies. The kingdom claims to be winning the battle against al-Qaeda’s Saudi wing but wants to protect itself against Saudi insurgents returning from Iraq.

"Fencing of borders will end infiltration" Kanpur, April 3 (UNI): Union Minister of State for Home, Sriprakash Jaiswal, Sunday said that fencing along the Indo-Pak and Indo-Bangaladesh border will be completed soon to put an end to infiltration activities in the country. Interacting with mediapersons here, Jaiswal said that once the border fencing work is completed, a comprehensive check will be put on the infiltration activities through both the sensitive international borders. Infiltration has been checked considerably following fencing and stepped up vigil by security forces along the Indo-Pak border running through Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and Gujarat. "Tourist traffic...

Opponents of the US House proposal to build a 700-mile fence across the border with Mexico usually argue that the fence will not work. They’re very, very wrong. A similar fence is working remarkably well in India, keeping out Islamist terrorists from Bangladesh. Even more remarkable is the success of the Israeli security fence: Before the construction of the fence, and in many places where it has not yet been completed, a terrorist need only walk across an invisible line to cross from the West Bank into Israel. No barriers of any kind exist, so it is easy to see...

Villagers on the Bangladesh border say the fence will cut them from their homeland TO REACH the baked earth of his mustard field each day, Mohammed Safiqual Biswas must pass coils of barbed wire and armed guards and show his identity card at a security check. The problem is not where Mr Biswas has come from, but where he is going to. His fields lie 60 miles east of Calcutta, right in the no man’s land between India and Bangladesh. Next month India plans to fence off this area of West Bengal as part of a little-known £600 million project...

Villagers on the Bangladesh border say the fence will cut them from their homeland TO REACH the baked earth of his mustard field each day, Mohammed Safiqual Biswas must pass coils of barbed wire and armed guards and show his identity card at a security check. The problem is not where Mr Biswas has come from, but where he is going to. His fields lie 60 miles east of Calcutta, right in the no man’s land between India and Bangladesh. Next month India plans to fence off this area of West Bengal as part of a little-known £600 million project...

Kolkata, India, December 17: India is deploying thousands of new troops on its frontier with Bangladesh and setting up hundreds of more border posts to check illegal migration and movement of armed militants, a top official said. New Delhi decided to bolster its eastern border defences in September to crack down on militants moving in from Bangladesh, although Dhaka denies anti-India elements are using its soil. In recent weeks, Bangladesh has been rocked by a series of bomb blasts believed to be carried out by radicals seeking to make the Muslim-majority democracy an Islamic state. This is a worry for...

INDIA is accelerating the construction of a 2,500-mile fence to seal its border with Bangladesh amid growing fears that its Muslim neighbour could become “a new Afghanistan”. Indian officials and western diplomats have been alarmed by an increase in terrorist attacks by militant groups linked to Al-Qaeda and by the Dhaka government’s failure to crack down on them. One group said to have links with the government claimed responsibility for 500 synchronised explosions in 63 of Bangladesh’s 64 districts in August. India’s cabinet has decided to speed up work on the 8ft security fence, which is intended to keep out...

DHAKA, Aug 7: Making it clear that India would go ahead with the fencing of the over 4000-km border with Bangladesh, External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh today said this would help curb activities like smuggling and illegal migration and contribute to peace and tranquility for people living in these areas. "A strong fence is useful for both sides to achieve their common objectives for mutual benefit," Singh , who is on a three-day visit here, said in an interview to Bangla daily ‘Jugantor’. Due to the porous nature of the borders, there was considerable cross-border criminal activity which included...

India may soon import advanced sensors and other gadgets from the US to check the influx of illegal Bangladeshi migrants into the northeast region through a semi-porous border. A Border Security Force (BSF) official said a team of experts from the federal home ministry is expected to visit the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, US, to shop for sophisticated electronic devices to arm paramilitary frontier guards in effectively checking infiltration from Bangladesh. "Sensors devised at the Sandia National Laboratories are being used in the United States to check cross-border infiltration and the team of experts would be exploring the...