Broken Hallelujah

Building work at the 104-acre complex, known locally as 'George W's palace', is supposed to be secret, but it is impossible to disguise the cranes dominating the Baghdad skyline of the palace that has 21 buildings and isbigger than anything Saddam built.

The question puzzles and enrages a city: how is it that the Americans cannot keep the electricity running in Baghdad for more than a couple of hours a day, yet still manage to build themselves the biggest embassy on Earth?

Irritation grows from the residents deprived of air-conditioning and running water three years after the US-led invasion. Looming over the skyline, the embassy has the distinction of being the only big US building project in Iraq that is on time and within budget. (via)

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