The U.S. Army is returning one of Saddam Hussein's presidential complex, 136 buildings overlooking the Tigris River, to Iraq's government.
The complex is going to be turned into a 5-star hotel, so long as a civil war does not break out.
The Tikrit complex is equipped with crystal chandeliers, marble stairs and huge bathrooms with sunken baths; there is even an indoor waterfall cascading over private grottoes.
The U.S. forces occupied palaces and other Saddam regime compounds after the invasion in spring 2003.
As part of a major pr exercise, to show that the Americans are not an occupying power, the exercise of transfer was started last year.
Unfortunately, the speed of return is dependent on the level of violence in Iraq.
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