Le camp de la victoire, vraiment? On s'apprête à quitter l'ancien palace de Saddam Hussein. Comme on ne pourra tout emporter, il faut choisir...
"For most of the war, nine gaudy palaces outside Baghdad — monuments to Saddam Hussein’s grandeur and questionable taste — served as the headquarters for the American military in Iraq.
Officers are now vacating them, and, like moving out of a long-occupied house, busy with the colossal job of sorting what to take and what to leave.
Convoys roll out daily, but not everything will fit. Hundreds of cars will be left behind. The military has weighed what items of historical or memorial value should be taken out together with the troops before Dec. 31, when the last United States soldiers are to leave. One item going with the Americans is the toilet that Saddam Hussein used while detained, bound for a military police museum in Missouri.
One item staying is Gen. David H. Petraeus’s bed. For nearly a decade he and all other commanding generals in Iraq slept, strangely, in a bed with a pastel-hued, lacquered headboard depicting in frieze two doves clasping ribbons in their beaks, against a field of pink and blue poppies.
When American troops commandeered the palace complex that included this room for barracks and headquarters early in the war they retained the original French Provincial-style furnishings, including the bed.
“We’re not taking anything that the Iraqis had,” Lt. Col. Jerry E. Brooks, an Army historian, said on a tour of the base this week. “We are only taking stuff that we put in, we utilized, and when we didn’t need it anymore, we took it home.”"
Lien pour un montage de photos du "déménagement":
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/11/11/world/middleeast/11victory.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1
Lien pour le reste de l'article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/world/middleeast/United-States-Prepares-for-Moving-Day-at-Camp-Victory-in-Iraq.html?_r=1
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