Yesterday I got to see another one of Saddam Hussein's palaces. This one is called the Al-Faw
Palace. You can read about it in the picture to the left. This was on a wall in the entrance. You can see the front of the palace below. Saddam was really into having things look good. It is now occupied by the headquarters unit that runs the troops here in Iraq. It is not the home of the 4 star General you see on TV but the #2 guy (3 Star General) is at this palace.
Here is the front entrance to the palace. It has 62 room, 26 bathrooms and is surrounded by water. The water is filled with fish. You can feed them and they go crazy.
Guarding the front of the palace are the Tongan Marines. These are Marines from the Kingdom of Tonga. You can read about it here---> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga They only have 55 of them here in Iraq. Once I leave Iraq I will probably never see a Tongan Marine again. So I took a picture with one of them. It was 120 degrees / 114 degrees in the shade. There was a temperature guage near the gate that actually read those numbers.
Palace. You can read about it in the picture to the left. This was on a wall in the entrance. You can see the front of the palace below. Saddam was really into having things look good. It is now occupied by the headquarters unit that runs the troops here in Iraq. It is not the home of the 4 star General you see on TV but the #2 guy (3 Star General) is at this palace.
Here is the front entrance to the palace. It has 62 room, 26 bathrooms and is surrounded by water. The water is filled with fish. You can feed them and they go crazy.
Guarding the front of the palace are the Tongan Marines. These are Marines from the Kingdom of Tonga. You can read about it here---> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga They only have 55 of them here in Iraq. Once I leave Iraq I will probably never see a Tongan Marine again. So I took a picture with one of them. It was 120 degrees / 114 degrees in the shade. There was a temperature guage near the gate that actually read those numbers.
TONGA!!
Here is the inside of the place. These are shots of the lobby
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3 comments:
Glad you are getting to see things. I was always jealous of the indoor plumbing when I visited the palace since we only had porta potties.
Be safe. So sorry to here about Bud. Please give my love to Bobby.
I think one of those things I won't take for granted when I get back will be "good" showers and a flushing toilet. smile. thx for writing
HEY! When you went to Iraq and I found out where you were going, this is what I envisioned your quarters would be like. Complete with fish. Why can't you rate these digs? I figured this would be more in the line of the lifestyle you had become accustomed. Living large in Iraq. Shame you couldn't scrounge up a humble crown to go with your reading chair, then you could do a royal wave and allow people to kiss your ring as they passed by.
Catch you this Friday.
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