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Article: US opens new embassy in Baghdad.
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- TradeArabia (Manama, Bahrain)
- Article date:
- January 5, 2009
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Byline: Baghdad
The United States opened its new embassy building in Baghdad on Monday, a step meant to symbolise its transition from occupying power to an ally of a sovereign Iraqi government.
In recent weeks US diplomats have gradually moved into the $592 million newly-built compound, the world's largest US embassy building, leaving behind a sprawling palace they had inhabited since toppling Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 2003.
US officials ruled Iraq directly from the same palace for more than a year after taking Baghdad.
The opening of the new embassy is in line with a change of power that was effected on New Year's Day, when US ...