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Title: Photographer Richard Mosse's pictures of Saddam Hussein's palaces
Post by: Chris on June 10, 2009, 11:04:20 PM

(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/alfawpalace2.jpg)
^{Al-Faw Palace, Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq 2009}

(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/saddamheads.jpg)
^{Saddam's heads, taken from the roof of the Republican Guard Palace, now located at Al-Salam Palace, FOB Prosperity, Baghdad, Iraq 2009}

(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/baiji.jpg)
^{Baiji Oil Refinery, Iraq 2009}

(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/obamabroadcast.jpg)
^{Obama broadcast into canteen, Birthday Palace, Tikrit, Iraq 2009}

http://www.richardmosse.com/photography.php


These are some awesome pictures.:II:

Title: Re: Photographer Richard Mosse's pictures of Saddam Hussein's palaces
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on June 15, 2009, 09:17:06 AM

These are pics given to me by a former green beret who took them while in one of the palaces:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/MrSnuggleBunny/Planes200.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/MrSnuggleBunny/Planes157.jpg)

Title: Re: Photographer Richard Mosse's pictures of Saddam Hussein's palaces
Post by: docstew on June 15, 2009, 09:25:25 AM

Unfortunately, I lost some of my pics in a computer crash, but virtually ALL of the palaces were this opulent.  Mosul had a FOB that was based on a palace complex, lots of marble and mosaics throughout.  Mosaics of Saddam standing next to old women in chadors, holding a grenade, or reclining, holding a young blonde boy.  Mosaics of Uday and Qusay as Sumerian kings/warriors.  Carvings of women or lions or horses.  The palace I lived in for a while had one purpose (I was told this third-hand, FWIW): full of rape rooms where Uday and Qusay would go, pick a woman from an overhead balcony, and have their way with them.  The woman would then be killed and tossed into the artificial lake out back.