$1B spent on Baghdad embassy, $1.3B to go:

With a staff of about 1,000 Americans and 400 Iraqis, the mission is one of the United States' largest. It is dramatically larger than what came before it in Baghdad: When the United States pulled out of the country after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, the embassy staff numbered around 50 and had an annual operating budget of $3.5 million.

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050602-040125-3089r.htm

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