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Security fence to be built around USA.
 Only days after the US government refused to rule out military action against Iran, the United Nations voted to build a security fence separating the USA from the rest of the world within the next six months.
UN spokesman Kofi Annan made the announcement during a Thursdays UN special session.
The 19,841 mile-long fence will be equipped with cameras and electronic detection devices, he said.
A total of $460 billion has been allocated for the project.
UN members attending the meeting later were quoted as backing the plan unanimously as long as it is completed quickly.
The idea of a security fence has repeatedly been proposed as a way to prevent US forces from reaching their targets in The World.
Supporters say similar fences in Berlin and along the perimeter of the Gaza Strip have helped block terror attacks in the past.
Detractors say the new fence inevitably will be seen as a border demarcation between the USA and The World, and will harm The World’s negotiating position with the USA in the future but UN spokesman Kofi Anna is categorical.
"We've got to find a way to get a handle on them," Annan said on NBC-TV's Meet the Press.
“Over the last fifty years US attacks have resulted in death and injury in the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Korea, Iran, Vietnam, Guatemala, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, China, Panama, Laos, Cuba, Panama, Indonesia, Dominican Republic, Cambodia, Oman, Chile, Angola, Libya, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada, Honduras, Philippines Liberia, Kuwait, Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Zaire, Albania, Sudan, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia and Colombia.
Enough is enough already.”
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