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Friday 11 November 2011

Leaving Camp Victory in Iraq


Lt. Colonel Jerry E. Brooks in the palace that was a part of Camp Victory. Andrea Bruce for The New York Times

Leaving Camp Victory In Iraq, The Very Name A Question Mark -- New York Times

CAMP VICTORY, Iraq — For most of the war, nine gaudy palaces outside Baghdad — monuments to Saddam Hussein's grandeur and questionable taste — served as the headquarters for the American military in Iraq.

Officers are now vacating them, and, like moving out of a long-occupied house, busy with the colossal job of sorting what to take and what to leave.

Convoys roll out daily, but not everything will fit. Hundreds of cars will be left behind. The military has weighed what items of historical or memorial value should be taken out together with the troops before Dec. 31, when the last United States soldiers are to leave. One item going with the Americans is the toilet that Saddam Hussein used while detained, bound for a military police museum in Missou [...]



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