Those pools may be from the days when it was part of Saddam's Republican Palace. It was pretty posh. I'm not sure if we built them or Saddam did.
Yes, Thaj, that's the one! The Kuwaiti contractors got the blame for that.
US 'used forced labour to build Iraq embassy'
By Damien McElroy in Baghdad
Last Updated: 12:56am BST 10/06/2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/09/wirq109.xml