New U.S. Embassy in Baghdad ready — six months late

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Source: McClatchy Newspapers

New U.S. Embassy in Baghdad ready — six months late
Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: April 14, 2008 08:28:33 PM

WASHINGTON — The State Department on Monday certified the new $740 million U.S. Embassy in Baghdad as ready to open, more than six months behind schedule.

Richard Shinnick, the department's buildings chief, said problems with the mammoth, 27-building complex's fire-safety systems have been fixed, and the embassy compound will now be turned over to U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker.

Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy signed the formal certificate of occupancy Monday, Shinnick said in an interview. Diplomats will begin moving into the compound next month.

The heavily fortified complex, the United States' biggest embassy, will provide working and living quarters for more than 1,000 U.S. diplomats and military personnel, many of whom have been posted on the grounds of a former palace of late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

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[Barrett808]

1. The mothership has landed

[thunder rising]

2. All BushCo needs is 1K morons to work there!! Does it have a big red target on top?

[tanyev]

8. Hopefully it has room on the roof for several helicopters.

[Gman]

3. Bushco doesnt' care if we're there for the long haul or not

they just wanted to let the contractors rape the treasury.

[blayne]

4. Six months late ain't bad at all.

[defendandprotect]

5. Billions and billions for war --- $740 million for a Taj Mahal Embassy . . .

while we destroy education, health of our citizens here --- and infrastructure ---

These people should be in jail !!!!

[freedomnorth]

6. Cheney is right, war will last our lifetime. nt.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Photos of the Bush's gift to the Iraqi people. A huge fortress holding lots of occupiers.

http://eyeball-series.org/usemb-iq/usemb-iq.htm