'Serious' Problems Were Ignored, Says State Dept. Official
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 12, 2008
The firefighting system in the massive $736 million embassy complex in Baghdad has potential safety problems that top U.S. officials dismissed in their rush to declare construction largely completed by the end of last year, according to internal State Department documents, e-mails and interviews.
Some officials assert that in the push to complete the long-delayed project, potentially life-threatening problems have been left untouched. "This is serious enough to get someone killed," said a State Department official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he feared retaliation. "The fire systems are the tip of the iceberg. That is the most visible. But no one has ever inspected the electrical system, the power plant" and other parts of the embassy complex, which will house more than 1,000 people and is vulnerable to mortar attacks.
Nice work, fellas. Note in particular that last sentence, you know, the mortar attacks...
of you have sat, and perhaps thought, with us!
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