Massive American embassy compound started.

This project sounds like a fortress for the occupying forces. They will stay in Iraq for decades to safeguard the oil, the only reason to be there at all.
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Three years after a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein, only one major U.S. building project in Iraq is on schedule and within budget: the massive new American embassy compound.
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The $592 million facility is being built inside the heavily fortified Green Zone by 900 non-Iraqi foreign workers who are housed nearby and under the supervision of a Kuwaiti contractor, according to a Senate Foreign Relations Committee report. Construction materials have been stockpiled to avoid the dangers and delays on Iraq's roads.
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"We are confident the embassy will be completed according to schedule (by June 2007) and on budget," said Justin Higgins, a State Department spokesman.

The same cannot be said for major projects serving Iraqis outside the Green Zone, the Senate report said. Many ?- including health clinics, water-treatment facilities and electrical plants ?- have had to be scaled back or in some cases eliminated because of the rising costs of securing worksites and workers.
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"No large-scale, U.S.-funded construction program in Iraq has yet met its schedule or budget," the committee report said.
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