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Article: New embassy's cost, impact and scope questioned.
- Article from:
- The Star (Amman, Jordan)
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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By Alexandra Zavis BAGHDAD, Iraq--Huge, expensive and dogged by controversy, the new US Embassy compound nearing completion here epitomizes to many Iraqis the worst of the US tenure in Iraq. "It's all for them, all of Iraq's resources, water, electricity, security," said Raid Kadhim Kareem, who has watched the buildings go up at a floodlighted site bristling with construction cranes from his post guarding an abandoned home on the other side of the Tigris River. "It's as if it's their country, and we are guests staying here." For all its scale and nearly $600-million cost, the compound designed to accommodate more than 1,000 people is not big enough and might not be safe ...