Drone_pilot
05-08-04, 22:17
Out in the desert, along the border with Iran, runs a chain of sand-coloured forts.
The Beau Geste-style ramparts stare across the scorched plains and former battlefields that scar the frontier.
Together they form a thinly stretched chain that is the front line in the battle to stop militant fighters from crossing into Iraq, to take part in the insurgency.
Until the hand-over of power last month, border security had been the responsibility of the coalition forces.
In the south, it was the Royal Welsh Fusiliers who kept watch.
Now they've pulled out of the forts, and left them to the newly-formed Iraqi Border Guard.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3942341.stm)
The Beau Geste-style ramparts stare across the scorched plains and former battlefields that scar the frontier.
Together they form a thinly stretched chain that is the front line in the battle to stop militant fighters from crossing into Iraq, to take part in the insurgency.
Until the hand-over of power last month, border security had been the responsibility of the coalition forces.
In the south, it was the Royal Welsh Fusiliers who kept watch.
Now they've pulled out of the forts, and left them to the newly-formed Iraqi Border Guard.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3942341.stm)