http://clipmarks.com/tags/crusader+castles/http://rss.clipmarks.com/tags/crusader+castles/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/044785B5-41F8-40D8-A954-3675642EF6EC/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/ratilfar/">ratilfar</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Return it to the Iraqis? If you believe that, I have a bridge over the Tigris I can sell you! <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/06/iraq" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/06/iraq">www.guardian.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/ratilfar/512/552C33D2-D289-4254-92D3-89772C91A2D7.jpg" alt="A plan by US military planners for the " /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Picture, if you will, a tree-lined plaza in Baghdad's International Village, flanked by fashion boutiques, swanky cafes, and shiny glass office towers. Nearby a golf course nestles agreeably, where a chip over the water to the final green is but a prelude to cocktails in the club house and a soothing massage in a luxury hotel, which would not look out of place in Sydney harbour. Then, as twilight falls, a pre-prandial stroll, perhaps, amid the cool of the Tigris Riverfront Park, where the peace is broken only by the soulful cries of egrets fishing. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The US military released the first tentative artists' impression yesterday. An army source said the barbed wire, concrete blast barriers and checkpoints that currently disfigure the 5 sq mile area would be replaced by shopping malls, hotels, elegant apartment blocks and leisure parks. "This is at the end of the day an Iraqi-owned area and we will give it back to them with added value," said the source, who requested anonymity.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/iraq/" rel="tag">iraq</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/crusader+castles/" rel="tag">crusader castles</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/empire/" rel="tag">empire</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/conquest/" rel="tag">conquest</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/war/" rel="tag">war</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/golf+course/" rel="tag">golf course</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/irony/" rel="tag">irony</a></div>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/06/iraqFri, 09 May 2008 16:00:28 GMT