psycho-cowboy : photos : 2003 (April) Iraq-Life Inside Saddam's Ramadan Palace : One of the 100's of chandeliers in the palace with ornate fresco.- 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??

One of the 100's of chandeliers in the palace with ornate fresco.

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