Just over a week ago, IS militants launched an attack on a Saudi border post, killing a senior Saudi general and two border guards, the Telegraph reported.
The incident marked the first direct IS assault on Saudi grounds.
IS lists the capture of Saudi Arabia, home to the holy Muslim grounds of Mecca and Medina, as a key goal. In an effort to thwart the attainment of this goal and isolate itself from IS threats and further attacks, the Kingdom launched a project to construct a "Great Wall" along it's northern border with Iraq, where IS presence is heavy.
Proposed in 2006, the border zone entails five layers of fencing, supplemented by watch towers, radar cameras, night-vision security, and a heavy presence of extra Saudi troops, the report said.
In the midst of construction, the wall is set to extend nearly 1000-km of a combined fence and ditch along the northern Saudi border.
Riyadh hopes that the completed project will fend off IS threats and keep the relatively closed kingdom, closed indeed.
