America embassy in Iraq .." A hidden " by billion dollars

Mohamed Abdul Halim - Islamonline .Net / 4-1 - 2006‏‏

A newspaper revealed " Daily Mirror " the British that The United States of America plans for the construction of its new embassy in Baghdad will make it as a more big hideout a fortification from the Pentagon building " the Pentagon " himself . And she pointed that the cost of this embassy construction comes to billion US dollars .

And the British newspaper mentioned in a report that on the Internet Tuesday 3-1 - 2006 transmitted that the plans for the construction of the complex of the supported embassy buildings by the highest technology Washington reached it she remained in secrecy, for fear of the security threats in Iraq .

And said " Daily Mirror " : the place of this embassy will remain secretely till that it declares it at the end of 2006, but it preferred that its construction takes place in the fortified green zone extremely in the Iraqi capital, where the command of the American forces is present in Iraq there side by side with the Iraqi government .

And the current headquarters of the American embassy is found in green zone also, and was one of the former president palaces Saddam Hussein who the American forces seized after its occupation of Iraq in April 2003 . And before the Iraqi American severance of relation in year 1990, the old headquarters of the embassy was falling in a region " Al-Karadah " north of the capital .

Walls against the explosions

And about the fortifications of the new embassy, the British newspaper said : it will fence by walls resistant to the explosions that its rise comes to 15 ahead, and surface-to-air missiles, as that the main building will include hideouts underground its use takes place if what was exposed to an air strike .

Also the internal embassy circumference includes about 300 houses of the consulate and the military officials, besides refuges and big barracks for sheltering the American Marines ( the Marines ) that will undertake a task the protection of the bigger building to Washington outside its lands .

And the newspaper reported from an American source that did not express its identity its saying : " the embassy buildings plans will remain behind the closed doors because of the threat of the terrorism .. The more fortification will be from the Pentagon because it will remain under a threat continuous in the attack on it " .

And she reported Mirour about a high-ranking Iraqi security source did not reveal its identity also " that the plans will make the embassy building greater and guarded a diplomatic building while behind the seas to America " .

Rules

And moreover the British newspaper mentioned that there are American plans for the construction of 4 huge American military bases around the Iraqi capital alone, and that these plans will feed the expectations that see that the Americans will maintain long presence in Iraq to coming extended years .

And she reported Mirour from the Iraqi security source itself : " they enables that they transfer the Pentagon of Iraq, and will be the more secure and a fortification, but this will waste the American allegations that they get ready for leaving Iraq so that he guards it and the Iraqis rule it themselves ... And the planning for the construction of 4 superior rules will reinforce the views that see that the Americans will stay here to a period from the time " .

And that comes despite the revelation of Donald Rumsfeld's US Secretary of Defense last week that The United States will withdraw 7 thousands American soldiers in 2006 so that the number of the forces come there to 153 thousand only .

Also, the British Prime Minister expected that the British withdrawing force starts from Iraq in may 2006 .

And Mirour mentioned that a company takes from Kuwait a headquarters of it that has received actually the sum of 300 million dollars within the deal of the completion of the construction of the embassy, as drew the plans related to the four huge rules with care so that its distribution takes place in a strategic way around the capital, and all will be in the middle of Iraq and falls in north of Baghdad and its west and its east and near it and is not away from .

As that there are a number of the American establishment companies and the Middle Eastern ones the approach of their grants for the winning by the rest of the embassy construction budget .

And known that despite number terrific American forces in Iraq, the occupation forces are afflicted with escalating daily losses that came until 3 January 2006 to 2179 dead according to the statistics of the network of the American Cnn and to 16155 injured according to what the Pentagon declared .