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Al-Faw Palace
Baghdad, Iraq
Al-Faw Palace, also called the Water Palace, stands in Baghdad, Iraq, about 5 km from the international airport, built in the 1990s by Saddam Hussein to celebrate Iraq's recapture of the Al-Faw Peninsula during the Iran-Iraq War.
Surrounded by an artificial lake and moat with Italian marble exteriors, gold-plated bathrooms, ornate chandeliers, and over 62 rooms inscribed with victory slogans, it served as Saddam's duck-hunting retreat amid luxurious villas.
Bombed lightly in the 2003 invasion, it became a U.S. military headquarters known as Camp Victory, later hosting Saddam's imprisonment and events like Stephen Colbert's show, before rehabilitation in 2018 as the American University of Iraq - Baghdad campus.
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77M4+GCH, Baghdad, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
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