We will continue to set up these barriers in Adhamiya and other areas." According to Atta, the barriers – which were to consist, he said, of sand barriers, trenches, barbed wire and concrete barriers constructed from moveable sections each weighing – would be only a temporary measure, to secure specific areas of Baghdad, and would be moved once each area was considered secure. One wall was dismantled in Baghdad in September 2008. In June 2009, the Iraqi government announced it would begin dismantling the remaining walls in Baghdad.