Posted on 09/15/2006 10:57:37 AM PDT by kronos77
BELGRADE, Serbia, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- A U.S. envoy has signed a contract with Serbia on the construction of an American embassy building in a Belgrade suburb.
U.S. Ambassador Michael Polt said Friday the land for the new embassy compound cost $15 million for 10.4 acres and the United States plans to invest about $100 million for buildings and equipment, Serbia's RTS radio-television reported.
The U.S. government actually bought a complex of residences, offices and barracks, built in 1948, that once served Marshall Josip Broz Tito and his elite military guard units.
Polt said he was pleased the contract on the embassy building construction was signed at the time when Serbia and the United States mark the 125th anniversary of diplomatic relations.
The construction of the embassy compound will be completed in the next four to five years, Polt said.
Lessee...and then the moslems we saved in Kosovo could come over and blow it up?
10.4 Acres... Hmmmm... Welcoming new CIA outpost? hehehe...
Hope that USA will realise by now that Serbia wants to be an ally... again...
No, actually... USA blew it up previously... those buildings were destroyed by Clinton airstrikes when he made enemy out of Christian Serbia... Now, USA bought ruines for $15,000,000...
It's below the ground that counts. A ready to use grid of reinforced concrete tunnels nad nuke shelters.
It was built with American money anyway :-)
True, true... Once we were allies... before Clinton...
Well... the last time we were really allies with Serbia goes back to WW2. It is to be acknowledged, however, how much the side a nation was on in that war and how it fared says about its national character. With regard to the Serbs, I'd sure rather have them on our side than any of the other squabbling factions in that region.
I heard that we bombed (and destroyed) EVERY SINGLE BRIDGE over the Danyube.
Serbs nonetheless saved some of those same pilots which were bombing them. The Serb royalist leader, Draza Mihailovic, thought Americans were mistaken in Tito and hoped they would eventually see the light. But his hopes were in vain. And Tito, once in power, murdered and imprisoned hundreds of thousands of anti-communists - including refugees forcibly returned by the allies to Yugoslavia. Tito also executed Draza Mihailovic - the very man who rescued hundreds of downed American airmen, who were hidden, fed and sheltered by his men and the Serb villagers, and all were rescued and got home safely.
I prefer the Croats. I've been to Croatia and they're good people. That being said, all the factions in that area were bastards during the Yugoslavian civil war, and none will fess up to any of it. On another note, the few Bosnian Muslims and Serbs I met also tended to be friendly once you got to know them.
Just my 2c.
oh... and you don't ever have to worry about Serbs & Greeks stabbing you in the back.
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