Abdul Kareem Jabbar, with family members in his backyard, as the newly fortified barrier looms over him.
The NYT reports
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.
As Robert Frost said:
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
(photo: Adam Nadel/Polaris, for the NYT
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