Saudi Arabia: Iraq fence project, rumors and unresolved issuesnote

There were rumors circulating in the past days suggesting names of local construction companies being short-listed for a Saudi project to build a 900km-long security fence along the Saudi-Iraqi border. The following 402-word article is published in Tactical Weekly of March 7, 2008. It names the companies which were the subject of rumors. It talks about the unresolved issues which have yet to be settled before awarding the project. One of the issues is the relation between this project and the Miksa border surveillance programme.