Quiz question (a bit dated)
What covers 104 acres, reportedly has a 15ft thick perimeter wall, is big enough to accomodate four Millenium domes, will end up being bigger than Vatican City, and will supposedly be visible from space when it's all done?
Guess, Guess..
It's the new US embassy in Baghdad [link]. It feels like something out of Catch 22 or Monty Python but it's true, and the best part is apparently "Officially, the design of the compound is supposed to be a secret"..
Excerpts from the Times article:
The question puzzles and enrages a city: how is it that the Americans cannot keep the electricity running in Baghdad for more than a couple of hours a day, yet still manage to build themselves the biggest embassy on Earth?...
...In a week when Washington revealed a startling list of missed deadlines and overspending on building projects, Congress was told that the bill for the embassy was $592 million
...There will be what is rumoured to be the biggest swimming pool in Iraq, a state-of-the-art gymnasium, a cinema, restaurants offering delicacies from favourite US food chains, tennis courts and a swish American Club for evening functions.
I don't know about "delicacies" from US food chains, but they don't seem to be in a tearing hurry to leave, are they?
Guess, Guess..
It's the new US embassy in Baghdad [link]. It feels like something out of Catch 22 or Monty Python but it's true, and the best part is apparently "Officially, the design of the compound is supposed to be a secret"..
Excerpts from the Times article:
The question puzzles and enrages a city: how is it that the Americans cannot keep the electricity running in Baghdad for more than a couple of hours a day, yet still manage to build themselves the biggest embassy on Earth?...
...In a week when Washington revealed a startling list of missed deadlines and overspending on building projects, Congress was told that the bill for the embassy was $592 million
...There will be what is rumoured to be the biggest swimming pool in Iraq, a state-of-the-art gymnasium, a cinema, restaurants offering delicacies from favourite US food chains, tennis courts and a swish American Club for evening functions.
I don't know about "delicacies" from US food chains, but they don't seem to be in a tearing hurry to leave, are they?