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igotthisguitar · Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:37 pm Post subject: Babylon Rises Again

Isn't there some BIBLE prophecy about this?

i.e. BABYLON rising again?

New GIANT U.S. Embassy in Iraq cloaked in mystery
Baghdad locale, slated to be completed in 2007, to be largest of its kind

Construction cranes loom above the site of the new U.S. Embassy being built in Baghdad. The embassy will sit on 104 acres, six times larger than the United Nations compound in New York and two-thirds the acreage of Washington��s National Mall.

Updated: 5:45 p.m. ET April 14, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The fortress-like compound rising beside the Tigris River here will be the largest of its kind in the world, the size of Vatican City, with the population of a small town, its own defense force, self-contained power and water, and a precarious perch at the heart of Iraq��s turbulent future.

The new U.S. Embassy also seems as cloaked in secrecy as the ministate in Rome.

��We can��t talk about it. Security reasons,�� Roberta Rossi, a spokeswoman at the current embassy, said when asked for information about the project.

A British tabloid even told readers the location was being kept secret — news that would surprise Baghdadis who for months have watched the forest of construction cranes at work across the winding Tigris, at the very center of their city and within easy mortar range of anti-U.S. forces in the capital, though fewer explode there these days.

The embassy complex — 21 buildings on 104 acres, according to a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee report — is taking shape on riverside parkland in the fortified ��Green Zone,�� just east of al-Samoud, a former palace of Saddam Hussein��s, and across the road from the building where the ex-dictator is now on trial.

The Republican Palace, where U.S. Embassy functions are temporarily housed in cubicles among the chandelier-hung rooms, is less than a mile away in the 4-square-mile zone, an enclave of American and Iraqi government offices and lodgings ringed by miles of concrete barriers.

5,500 employees at the embassy
The 5,500 Americans and Iraqis working at the embassy, almost half listed as security, are far more numerous than at any other U.S. mission worldwide. They rarely venture out into the ��Red Zone,�� that is, violence-torn Iraq.

This huge American contingent at the center of power has drawn criticism.

��The presence of a massive U.S. embassy — by far the largest in the world — co-located in the Green Zone with the Iraqi government is seen by Iraqis as an indication of who actually exercises power in their country,�� the International Crisis Group, a European-based research group, said in one of its periodic reports on Iraq.

State Department spokesman Justin Higgins defended the size of the embassy, old and new, saying it��s indicative of the work facing the United States here.

��It��s somewhat self-evident that there��s going to be a fairly sizable commitment to Iraq by the U.S. government in all forms for several years,�� he said in Washington.

Higgins noted that large numbers of non-diplomats work at the mission — hundreds of military personnel and dozens of FBI agents, for example, along with representatives of the Agriculture, Commerce and other U.S. federal departments.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12319798/

Summer Wine · Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Location: Next to a River

post 1975 Vietnam, the russians, vietnamese had access to warehouses of US military equipment, planes, tanks, etc. even cryptograph machines. I would hope that if america does lose this conflict that they make sure they dont leave anything for the enemy this time. They are obviously more confident than than the newspapers state, that they will be in for the long haul. Some of the super base/fortresses they are building sound interesting as well.

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Do you really think the iraqis are going to like a massive symbol of American occupation planted in the heart of their city?

They would do well to dominate the world a bit less blatantly.

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Embassy employment anyone?

Any American or Iraqi who had any doubt that the invasion of Iraq was not predestined for U.S. occupation need only look at the photo of the new 104-acre (10 times the usual size) U.S. "Embassy" in Baghdad (Star Tribune, April 14).

Given that there is a military recruiting shortage, who will fulfill the U.S. government's requirements to support this ill-fated folly?

Perhaps the military is destined to be next in line to hire illegal immigrants to perform jobs Americans won't do at any price.

But don't count on a long-term job

The U.S. Embassy being built in Baghdad appears to be an extravagant waste of U.S. taxpayer dollars for a embassy that may end up being a pile of rubble.
http://www.startribune.com/563/story/389293.html

You only have to read the Iraqi resistance report to see that half the city is already rubble, and what is rebuilt is bombed over and again. remember the Baghdad UN security headquarters was razed to the ground by a car bomb in 2003?
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m22662&l=i&size=1&hd=0