"After roughing it in Saddam’s abandoned palaces, diplomats should have every comfort in their new home. There will be impressive residences for the Ambassador and his deputy, six apartments for senior officials, and two huge office blocks for 8,000 staff to work in. There will be what is rumoured to be the biggest swimming pool in Iraq, a state-of-the-art gymnasium, a cinema, restaurants offering delicacies from favourite US food chains ..."It will be the size of eighty football fields. Presumably it will not have a bull's-eye painted on the side.
Monday, February 12, 2007
"George W's palace" rising from the banks of the Tigris.
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