What is this gigantic construction site? The future US embassy in Baghdad, Iraque, due to be operational in June 2006.
How big is it? 104 hectares, the size of Vatican City, containing 21 buildings, including six blocks, with 619 one-bedroom flats, a recreation building, a beauty salon, gym, swimming pool, a school, its own water treatment plant and electrical generator.
What about security? Its surounded by five-metre-thick walls and ringed by military guards.
How much will it cost to build? President Bush requested $1.3 billion for the embassy in the 2005 "emergency supplemental". Presently, 3,500 workers are constructing the complex, 24hours a day.
For how much did Iraq sell the real estate to the US? $0
How big is it? 104 hectares, the size of Vatican City, containing 21 buildings, including six blocks, with 619 one-bedroom flats, a recreation building, a beauty salon, gym, swimming pool, a school, its own water treatment plant and electrical generator.
What about security? Its surounded by five-metre-thick walls and ringed by military guards.
How much will it cost to build? President Bush requested $1.3 billion for the embassy in the 2005 "emergency supplemental". Presently, 3,500 workers are constructing the complex, 24hours a day.
For how much did Iraq sell the real estate to the US? $0
(cit The Age
also see the Congressional Research Service April 2005 report)
also see the Congressional Research Service April 2005 report)
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