There is new pencil-thin tower rising high above Baghdad's skyline. It is the 70-story Saddam Hussein Tower, which is being built on the site of an earlier project leveiled during the allied bombing. Work hasn't stopped on it since Saddam ordered its construction two years ago. It is hailed as a tower of deficance: proof that Iraqis hae the will to overcome their difficulties. When it is finished at the end of the year, it will be topped by a communications mast and a grand restaurant.
April 08, 2006
Baghdad's New Tower
There is new pencil-thin tower rising high above Baghdad's skyline. It is the 70-story Saddam Hussein Tower, which is being built on the site of an earlier project leveiled during the allied bombing. Work hasn't stopped on it since Saddam ordered its construction two years ago. It is hailed as a tower of deficance: proof that Iraqis hae the will to overcome their difficulties. When it is finished at the end of the year, it will be topped by a communications mast and a grand restaurant.
