Ambasada za 1 mld dolarów

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Amerykanie budują w Bagdadzie ambsadę, której koszt wyniesie 1 mld dolarów.
Kto jeszcze wierzy w to, że Amerykanie zamierzają opuścić kiedykolwiek Irak?


That's the estimate, though only half of it has been appropriated so far, a
billion dollars to build a new embassy in Iraq . It will be the largest on
the globe, the largest the world has ever seen, the size of Vatican City in
Italy .

U.S. embassies typically cover ten acres. This one, a 104-acre complex, will
be comprised of 21 buildings, its own water wells, an electricity plant and
wastewaster-treatment facility that makes the huge compound completely
independent of Iraq , whose "interim government" sold the land to the U.S. in
October 2004. Terms of the agreement do not appear to be readily accessible.

The massive compound will include two major diplomatic office buildings,
homes for the ambassador and his deputy, apartment buildings for staff, and a
recreational facility that will provide a swimming pool, gym, commissary,
food court and American Club.

In this case, the devil is less in the details than in the monumental size
and cost of the endeavor. The likeness to a small fortified city is
frightening to those who object to a permanent presence of the U.S. in Iraq,
already destroyed by American bombs and depleted uranium, and the core of
such fear lies in the question of WHY the U.S., already dangerously in debt
back home and dangerously despised in Iraq and most of the mideast, is
pounding its chest with such a noisy bravado. Is this the finale of "Shock
and Awe"?

Those working in the embassy-city are protected by extraordinary security,
overseen by U.S. Marines. Structures will be reinforced to 2.5 times the
standard. There will be five high-security entrances as well as an emergency
entrance/exit, according to a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee report.