Saddam palaces to become leisure park
U.S. troops hand over complex to Iraqi authorities
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
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U.S. commanders on Tuesday moved out of a complex of palaces that once belonged to ousted president Saddam Hussein, a site Iraqi officials hope to turn into a tourist destination. The complex, which overlooks the Tigris River, was built just outside Saddam's hometown of Tikrit soon after the end of the 1989-90 Gulf war.
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