Hut 3 is only a few yards away, on the other side of the inevitable blast wall.
Even the exhausted smiled, leaning against blast walls designed to keep out the frequent mortar fire.
The mansion and two adjacent houses have been surrounded by blast walls.
The 2005 explosion gouged the pavement in front of his house, and afterward he had a large blast wall built.
Iraq was a land of blast walls and barbed wire fences.
He walked away from the hangar and toward the runway on the other side of the blast wall.
Several concrete blast walls were added to stop potential bomb debris flying along the tunnel.
It was not clear if this referred to housing inside the international zone, which is surrounded by 10 miles of 15-foot-high concrete blast walls.
In Baghdad today, as the concrete blast walls multiply, control seems almost unimaginable.
Like nearly all government buildings in Baghdad, it is surrounded by 10-foot concrete blast walls and dozens of guards.