Pentagon plans to Pimp-out Baghdad

Picture, if you will, a tree-lined plaza in Baghdad's International Village, flanked by fashion boutiques, s****y cafes, and shiny glass office towers. Nearby a golf course nestles agreeably, where a chip over the water to the final green is but a prelude to cocktails in the club house and a soothing massage in a luxury hotel, which would not look out of place in Sydney harbour. Then, as twilight falls, a pre-prandial stroll, perhaps, amid the cool of the Tigris Riverfront Park, where the peace is broken only by the soulful cries of egrets fishing.

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"This is at the end of the day an Iraqi-owned area and we will give it back to them with added value," said the source, who requested anonymity."

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Marriott International has already signed a deal to build a hotel in the Green Zone, according to Navy Captain Thomas Karnowski, the chief US liaison. Also in the pipeline is a possible $1bn investment from MBI International, a hotel and resorts specialist led by Saudi sheikh, Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber.

One Los Angeles-based firm, C3, has said it wants to build an amusement park on the Green Zone's outskirts. As part of the first phase, a skateboard park is due to open this summer.

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The_Librarian said:

But isn't Iraq in the desert? Where will they get all the water from?

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The_Librarian said:

But isn't Iraq in the desert? Where will they get all the water from?

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