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"We pass a distant mound, topped with one of Saddam Hussein's ugly palaces that resemble 1970s airports.
"What Saddam did here was terrible," says Saad al-Izzi, our interpreter for the trip. This is Babylon, and what Hussein did was lay bogus concrete restorations and cheesy murals, with smiling winged lions and horned donkeys, over the ancient halls where Nebuchadnezzar once walked. Ancient Babylon today looks like a cut-rate day-care center."
- Washington Post, 6 May 2006
"What Saddam did here was terrible," says Saad al-Izzi, our interpreter for the trip. This is Babylon, and what Hussein did was lay bogus concrete restorations and cheesy murals, with smiling winged lions and horned donkeys, over the ancient halls where Nebuchadnezzar once walked. Ancient Babylon today looks like a cut-rate day-care center."
- Washington Post, 6 May 2006
