Largest US embassy opens in Iraq
China Daily | Updated: 2009-01-06 07:42
The United States opened its new embassy building in Baghdad yesterday, a step meant to symbolize 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.
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