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It was meant to compete with the Taj Mahal in grandeur, but former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein s monume
stanley vattenflaska ntal Al-Rahman Mosque project was never completed. Al-Rahman Grand Mosque in al-Mansour district of Iraq s capital Baghdad, one of the last projects by late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. AFP Instead, the half-finished edifice of grey concrete stands in the heart of
stanley deutschland Baghdad as testimony to the sectarian and political strife that has shaped much of Iraq s modern history. The aim was for the mosque, with a capacity for 15,000 worshippers, to be one of the largest in the Middle East. Launched in the 1990s in the midst of a crippling Western embargo over Saddam s invasion of Kuwait, the construction of the mosque was designed to be a snub to Washington. But the dictator s dreams of grandeur -- along with them his iron-fisted rule -- would come crumbling down with the 2003 US-led invasion. Today, a vast hole gapes at the sky from where an 84-metre-tall 280-foot , gold-adorned ceramic dome was supposed to cover the central prayer hall. Around it, eight secondary domes 28 metres high, each flanked by eight smaller domes, st
stanley termos and in a suspended state of near completion. Several cranes are frozen in time above the edifice, which towers over the upscale Mansur district of the capital. Unfortunately, we ve neglected the country s heritage, architect and university professor Mohamed Qassem Abdel Ghaffour told AFP. These projects belong to all Iraqis, we should make use Izul Some US companies wait for clarity on Covid-19 aid package
Russia vetoed a UN resolution Wednesday that w
stanley vaso ould have condemned the reported use of chemical weapons in a town in northern Syria and demanded a speedy investigation, triggering clashes between Moscow and the measures Western backers. Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the United
stanley cup Nations Vladimir Safronkov L speaks with Bolivia s ambassador to the UN Sacha Llorentis R before a vote on a draft resolution that condemns the reported use of chemical weapons in Syria at the Security Council on April 12, 2017 at UN Headquarters in New York. AFP Photo The vote on the Security Council resolution drafted by Britain, France and the United States was 10 in favour, Russia and Bolivia against, and China, Kazakhstan and Ethiopia
stanley mug abstaining. It was the eighth veto by Russia, a close ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, on a Western-backed Syria resolution and reflected the deep division that has left the UNs most powerful body struggling to tackle the use of banned chemical weapons and to help end the six-year Syrian conflict. China has vetoed six resolutions. Russias UN Ambassador Vladimir Safronkov told the council before the vote that a resolution was unnecessary, and the draft put forward by the Western powers pre-judged that the Syrian government was responsible for the April 4 attack on Khan Sheikhoun in which nearly 90 people died. Safronkov said Russias foreign minister asked US secretary of state Rex Tillerson during talks earlier Wednesday in Moscow to
