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07/08/05 10:30 AM

#114864 RE: hap0206 #114825

BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 4 - Iraqis call it Assur, the Fence. In English everyone calls it the Wall, and in the past two years it has grown and grown until it has become an almost continuous rampart, at least 10 miles in circumference, around the seat of American power in Baghdad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/international/middleeast/05wall.html