psycho-cowboy : photos : 2003 (April) Iraq-Life Inside Saddam's Ramadan Palace : One of the golden bathrooms beside my bedroom in Saddam's Ramadan palace which included its own movie theater in the basement and a vault stuffed with $1Billion Dinar and $6.5Million US.- powered by SmugMug

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In March of 2003 I received a phone call requesting I volunteer to go to Iraq during the invasion as a GS-15/COL in civilian status with 167 other civilians to serve under (RET) General Jay Garner. We entered Baghdad as the city burned...

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psycho-cowboy > The endless halls of the ORHA/OCPA HQ looking toward my bedroom after they got the lights working. Before this, it was like walking a mineshaft

psycho-cowboy > An archway over a door. We cut into the doors to close them because we wired the building by laying cables on the floor.

psycho-cowboy > A balcony in the grand foyer entrance to the rotunda.

psycho-cowboy > One of the golden bathrooms beside my bedroom in Saddam's Ramadan palace which included its own movie theater in the basement and a vault stuffed with $1Billion Dinar and $6.5Million US.

psycho-cowboy > Lawn furniture in the grand entry to the rotunda

psycho-cowboy > Soon enough, we had a palace decorator that bought furniture (most likely looted) from the locals.

psycho-cowboy > An intricate wood mosaic ceiling and chandellier

psycho-cowboy > This was a hallway between two great halls. One hall was Saddam's cabinet room, the other his throne room??

psycho-cowboy > One of the 100's of chandeliers in the palace with ornate fresco.

One of the golden bathrooms beside my bedroom in Saddam's Ramadan palace which included its own movie theater in the basement and a vault stuffed with $1Billion Dinar and $6.5Million US.