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barbed wire

Cheap fencing material made of strands of galvanized wire (see galvanizing), twisted together with sharp barbs at close intervals. In 1874 an American, Joseph Glidden, devised a machine to mass-produce barbed wire. Its use on the open grasslands of 19th-century America led to range warfare between farmers and cattle ranchers; the latter used to drive their herds cross-country.



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Having barbwire between myself and the police is not a first for me; I was involved in various demonstrations during my teenage years and am accustomed to large crowds of screaming, raving heads.
The barbwire separating the Lebanese and Israeli border at the Gate of Fatima juncture witnessed an active morning from the Israeli side; Israeli automated patrols toured along the Matalla colony reaching Al Ghajar point.
Run a row of these, then place two rows of quadruple-barbed barbwire on top and sandwich it between your next row of bags.
 
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