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UK Blocks US Efforts to Build $10M Saddam Museum

HeadlineJul 16, 2004

Britain and Australia have blocked a move by the US to build a $10 million museum in Baghdad to document the atrocities of Saddam Hussein’s regime. This according to a report in the Guardian of London. The U.S. wanted to take $10 million from Iraqi oil revenue to build the museum which the US described as a special commitment by Paul Bremer to the Iraqi people. Australia rejected the idea saying it should be up to the Iraqi people— not the US — to decide on how to spend its own money.

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