Trenches (dug by security forces) to protect Iraqi Christians

[sabra]

Source: UPI

BAGHDAD
, July 24 (UPI) -- Iraqi security officials have taken steps to protect the Christian minority population in the north of the country by erecting trenches around their community.

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Those incidents resurfaced in the period surrounding the U.S. troop drawdown in June, with attacks in Mosul and Baghdad killing at least five and injuring 20 others in recent weeks.

Abdul Raheem al-Shimari, the head of the provincial security and defense committee, said security teams have dug trenches around the towns of Talkaif and Hamdaniya in order to protect the Christian population, the U.N. humanitarian news agency IRIN reports.

Shimari said the trenches are roughly 1.5 feet deep and are intended to prevent potential car bombers from getting through without the necessary security checks.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/07/24/Trenches-to-protect-Iraqi-Christians/UPI-16531248450661/

[RandySF]

1. I saw this coming as far back as 2002.

[SkyDaddy7]

2. This is wonderful news...

If the Iraqi forces really make an effort to protect other religions this is a very good sign...If they really do protect them.

[No Elephants]

3. In their homelands, Arab Christians are one of the smallest minorities.

I am not sure I trust this move, though.

I once heard that some of Iraq's Christians still say services in Syriac, because they have been so underground for so long.

[frog92969]

4. Retaliation against the modern Crusades.

This childish shit should have stopped centuries ago.
I think their denial of evolution is an attempt to stop it,
so far their succeeding.

[ohio2007]

7. 59 Xtian churchs bombed since 2004

Church Bombings in Iraq Since 2004

http://www.aina.org/news/20080107163014.htm

but nobody is really keeping score

[Arctic Dave]

5. Trenches or mass graves? Time will tell.

[ohio2007]

6. probably fashioned after the one in Warsaw. Another Saudi Arabia religious freedom state in the

making