Billion Dollar Bunker: US plans Baghdad embassy more secure than Pentagon

[Barrett808]

EXCLUSIVE: BILLION DOLLAR BUNKER
EXCLUSIVE U.S. plans Baghdad embassy more secure than Pentagon
By Chris Hughes Security Correspondent

AMERICA is to spend £1billion on an embassy in Baghdad "more secure than the Pentagon".

Plans for the hi-tech complex are being kept secret because of the terrorist threat in Iraq.

The exact location is not being released until later this year but it is likely to be built in the heavily fortified Green Zone area where the Iraqi government and US military command is based.

The embassy will be guarded by 15ft blast walls and ground-to-air missiles and the main building will have bunkers for use during air offensives.

The grounds will include as many as 300 houses for consular and military officials.

And a large-scale barracks will be built for Marines who will protect what will be Washington's biggest and most secure overseas building.

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[Atman]

1. Because they love their liberators so much!

God, I hate the lying sons of bitches at BushCo!

[saigon68]

24. I can't wait for the day they are chased out From The Roof Top

[tatertop]

2. Middle East Central

[Xipe Totec]

3. I have a one word reply:

Troy.

[PretzelWarrior]

4. why? they're leaving pretty soon, right?

oh wait. that was in my dreams. The tick is burrowing in to suck the blood out of Iraqis and oil out of their sand. This is shameful.

[Massacure]

5. And 3 days after it is finished, the Iraqis will kick us out.

Wouldn't that be ironic.

[M155Y_A1CH]

27. Bunker-busters

We would, of course, need to build those multi-billion dollar bunker busting nukes
pronto after the hand-over. It's not irony, when it's planned.

[mom cat]

34. Anyone who seriously tries to get the US out will get a visit from the

death squads. George isn't leaving Iraq and I wonder if he is leaving the Whith House.

[brokensymmetry]

6. Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first drive mad.

Spending a billion dollars on an embassy such as described surely sounds like madness to me.

[merwin]

7. Actually, that's a billion pound bunker, from what the article says

[Vidar]

8. Make sure it has a good heliport. Remember Vietnam.

[oblivious]

17. Sounds like it's big enough to have a runway.

[EVDebs]

33. Very well. Who is crazy enough to play the part of Graham A. Martin ?

[MisterP]

9. the new Proconsular Palace

or is it a Caesarship, like Diocletian's dividing the Roman Empire into the Tetrarchy--two senior halves (East and West) and two junior subsections for the "Caesars" ("Gallia" and "Moesia").
Disgustus gets America, Chalabi Caesar gets Mesopotamia Maximus.
Alexander founded like 20 cities named Alexandria, all across his empire.

[hang a left]

18. LOL

Mesopotamia Maximus

[leftchick]

10. Looks like the USA plans to STAY in Iraq forever....

"who could have predicted"? :eyes:

[izzie]

11. I guess we have our coal refilling spots in the Middle East now.

We are like the old East Indian Company.

[Thor_MN]

15. Coal? That's so 20th Century.

Our alchemists are perfecting (after a few accidents, i.e. Enronius Deflatus, Californicus Screwassium) the process of turning mineral carbon deposits into GOLD!!!

[MetaTrope]

12. And in its central hall will be the throne of King George I

whose Blackwater troops by that point will be quite capable of holding off what's left of the U.S. military.

[saigon68]

28. Or the Zapata Mercenaries

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12349


Who is Zapata?


Zapata Engineering began its work in Iraq on September 30, 2003 as one of five companies originally hired under a $200 million contract to supervise the destruction and storage of U.S military ammunition worldwide.

Under a new contract, awarded on April 16, 2004 by the Army Corps of Engineers, a $43.8 million task order sent Zapata to Iraq to manage captured enemy ammunition(CEA). Some would be destroyed, while the rest was put away for safe-keeping until a new Iraq government could take charge.

Zapata Engineering is one among scores of military contractors in Iraq that perform duties ranging from cooking food to conducting interrogations. The company was started in 1991 in North Carolina by Manuel Zapata, a Chilean-born immigrant. Initially he worked for contacts he made while serving as head of an international business development committee at the Charlotte Chamber in the mid-1980s.

Zapata soon discovered that the company qualified for preferential treatment in government contracts because, as a Hispanic citizen, he is considered a minority. "A project manager told me about it," Zapata told the Charlotte Business Journal at the time. "I had no idea it existed."

[TheGunslinger]

13. "four massive military superbases around Iraq's capital"

And there you have it.

[brentspeak]

14. Will animals be bred and slaughtered?

[Thor_MN]

16. Please explain to me why we are only hearing this from a UK source???

I have seen NOTHING on this from the US "Librul Media"

I'm semi OK with the "Bush broke it, we have to fix" policy, but WTF?!?! I think it's pretty clear that Iraq is headed towards a place where we aren't going to be having too many diplomats in the near future. Why are we spending this money (no doubt mostly Haliburton contracts) on an embassy? Unless they have some sort of Star Trek Transporter, we are not going to be able to get people in and out of it!!!

[doc03]

19. Let me guess, Halliburton is the only company

capable of taking on a project of this magnitude. Bush said it will be a (six) sided building just like our Pentagon.

[grumpy old fart]

21. lol...More likely a pentagram actually......

[grumpy old fart]

20. The design for the roof revealed!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

22. With the world's largest heli-pad on the roof.

[cliss]

23. I've read that it will be the world's largest embassy.

It will hold 3,000 people. That's an awful lot of people. I wonder how many will volunteer for the job?

I was just browsing in the US government's web site, where they look for RFP's (requests for proposal) for contractors. There were actually a few request for Iraq. They are looking for lots of stuff; food suppliers, builders, etc. My co-worker wondered if we should bid on any of it.

We both agreed it's WAY too dangerous. No way.

Stupid clown Bush.

[sugapablo]

25. "Embassy" huh?

A billion pound facility more secure than the Pentagon, with barracks for marines, 15ft blast walls, surface-to-air missiles, and bunkers is not an embassy. It's a military outpost.

So much for leaving when the job is done.

[thebigidea]

26. as if the Pentagon were very secure

what with that humiliating attack on our military HQ and everything. Or have we forgotten that one already? The Pentagon attack never seems to come up much when discussing 9/11 - probably because it was deeply embarassing. Hard to project a tough guy war president image when you can't even defend your base...

[HuffleClaw]

29. AND four 'military superbases'

yet, iraq is SOVEREIGN ! something is wrong with this picture. and to make this even more laughable, they plan on using IRAQI oil revenue to finance all of this, while calling it 'redevelopment'. they have no shame.

[gordianot]

30. What happened to all the of Saddam's super bunkers?

I thought they were intact? Surely they could be reoccupied they must have worked for Saddam. Or was that another lie?

[mopinko]

31. .

[atomic-fly]

32. Too bad they don't have this kind of ambition in New Orleans nt

[NYC Liberal]

35. So what happens when the Iraqis kick us out and tell us to take

our mini-city with us?

[shadowknows69]

37. The ones telling us that are insurgents

didn't you know that? the real Iraqi's want us there.

[eridani]

36. This is a fucking outrage!

Let's demand some public commentary from leading Dems on this.

[area51]

38. "£1billion on an embassy in Baghdad `more secure than the Pentagon'"

More nazi insanity. So universal healthcare is "too expensive", but we can throw $$$ at a country we had no business invading in the first place? :mad: