Saudi Arabia to build a 600-mile wall from Jordan to Kuwait to stop the ISIS invasion

#SaudiArabia #saudiiraqborder Islamic State has robbed the sleep of a number of countries and the Saudi royal family plan to construct a 600-mile barrier stretching from Jordan to Kuwait to fortify the northern frontier of Saudi Arabia.
The fence and ditch would have radar surveillance towers at regular intervals apart from command centers and guard posts – the purpose of the wall would be to protect the Saudis' oil-rich territory from an invasion by the Islamic State insurgency.
It seems a recent suicide bombing and gun attack that had killed two Saudi border guards and their commanding officer had the style associated with the IS and, as revealed by an analyst, it was the first attack on the kingdom by the ISIS. Work on the wall has already started and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud had inaugurated the first phase in September, soon after Islamic State's Sunni insurgency swept across Iraq.
The multi-layered barrier will have 78 monitoring towers, eight command centers, 10 mobile surveillance vehicles, 32 rapid-response centers, and three rapid intervention squads.
The barrier would be six-mile-deep and would consist of a ditch, two fences and a patrol road that would connect the watchtowers and guard rooms. There would be thermal imagers and battlefield radar systems that would be able to detect individuals at up to 12 miles away and vehicles at up to 24 miles away.