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===Kuwait=== {{Main|Kuwait-Iraq barrier}} [[File:Flickr - The U.S. Army - Closing the gate.jpg|thumb|US and Kuwaiti soldiers closing the gate to Iraq of the border barrier in 2011]] Writer [[Damon DiMarco]] has described as a "separation barrier" the [[Kuwait-Iraq barrier|Kuwait-Iraq barricade]] constructed by the United Nations in 1991 [[History of Kuwait#Gulf War (1990β91)|after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was repelled]]. With [[Electric fence|electrified fencing]] and [[concertina wire]], it includes a 5-meter-wide trench and a high [[berm]]. It runs 180 kilometers along the border between the two nations.<ref>Damon DiMarco, ''Heart of War: Soldiers? Voices'', Citadel Press, 2007, [https://books.google.com/books?id=W9cRi1vkKJIC&dq=Kuwait%E2%80%93Iraq++%22Separation+barrier%22&pg=PA129 p. 129], {{ISBN|0806528141}}, 9780806528144</ref>
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