FUTURE U.S. EMBASSY IN IRAQ TO BE WORLD'S LARGEST

[Disturbed]

FUTURE U.S. EMBASSY IN IRAQ TO BE WORLD'S LARGEST

(Baghdad, Iraq-AP) -- The future U.S. Embassy in Iraq will be the world's largest. The embassy is scheduled to open in Baghdad in July, but the exact location hasn't been decided yet.

Officials say the number of staff could be 3,000 or more. They say a large American contingent will be required in Iraq long after July 1, when the U.S. plans to turn over sovereignty to Iraqis.

http://www.wgrz.com/storyfull.asp?id=18910

*Some people wonder how long the US intends to stay in Iraq This should answer that question.

[bif]

1. It's going to have to be ringed by a moat

About 10,000 tanks and plenty of anti-aircraft guns.

[ThomWV]

2. Does Dien Ben Fu (sp?) Ring a Bell

[pinto]

3. it's not only an embassy, it's a fortress....n/t necessary.

[treefrogjohn]

4. Might as well conduct the missle defense system tests there!

They will get a lot of practice.

[ulTRAX]

5. shipping containers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"The future U.S. Embassy in Iraq will be the world's largest. The embassy is scheduled to open in Baghdad in July, but the exact location hasn't been decided yet."

Are they going to airlift it in to Iraq intact? Maybe it will be like the living quarters at the US Embassy in Kabul. The US Ambassador has his own private shipping container! Modular Embassies... what a concept!

From: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=49&ItemID=4974

Outside, in front of the forlorn building, on what once was a lawn, are a dozen gleaming-white steel shipping containers. It is in these windowless, 8-foot by 17-foot, shrapnel-proof ConEx boxes lined up in the inner circle of the inner circle of the American diplomatic hamlet, that the embassy staff spend their nights. Here, at the center of an eighth of a mile of concentric fortifications, the American Ambassador sleeps in his own private shipping container.

[hang a left]

8. They will use one of Saddam's palaces.

"but the exact location hasn't been decided yet."


Yeah....sure.....OK now.

[indepat]

6. A staff member for every few thousand Iraqis in the largest embassy

in the world, this for a country of some 22 million? Wonder if the Halliburton's of the world stand to profit from construction of this palatial embassy?

[Mari333]

7. I see. But they cant feed the troops or fix the Humvees.

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