Baghdad entrances to get security gates with surveillance cameras

[sabra]

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Baghdad entrances to get security gates with surveillance cameras

Baghdad, Jan 18, (VOI) – The entrances of Baghdad will get during 2007 four security gates complete with surveillance cameras to monitor all vehicles coming into and leaving the Iraqi capital, an official source in Baghdad governorate said on Thursday.

The four gates will cost a total of 24 billion dinars ($18.5 million), the source, who declined to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

The cameras will be “connected to the offices of the Iraqi president, the prime minister, the parliament speaker and the governor of Baghdad so that monitor directly all vehicles coming in through the four gates,”

“The gates will also have ultraviolet equipments to see through the vehicles in order to intercept car bombs and vehicles smuggling weapons,” he added.
Each gate will have an emergency aid center, a fire fighting unit, a mosque, four towers and a parking car lot, the source said.

[angstlessk]

1. A mosque? a fucking mosque? to pray for your soul before you are shot to death?

WTF is this...there are only 4 ways to get in and out of Baghdad?

[sabra]

2. The cameras will be “connected to the offices of the Iraqi president"

:crazy:

[uppityperson]

3. Is there a secure fence all the way around this city?

Can you imagine having a capital city here in the USA surrounded by a fence with only 4 gates in? This just seems like it won't do much good. First they have to clear out the city completely, then let back in only those they want in. How the hell do they do this? I can see a small village perhaps, but wtf am I missing here?

Edited to ask, maybe they mean the Green Zone?

[Cass]

4. Is this satire? The cameras will be connected to Maliki's office?

Four entrances for a city the size of Baghad doesn't sound right to me and why build a mosque in an entrance gate?