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Marble arches, gold faucets, a bulletproof banquet room which seats 200, an operating room and medical suite. No gym.
That's what you'll find if you're the lucky buyer of Saddam Hussein's 269-foot mega-yacht, "The Basra Breeze." The Iraqi Government has finally put the yacht on the market for $30 million after winning a long battle for ownership. A consortium which included Jordan's Prince Abdullah had laid claim to the boat but lost.
But The London Times reports that the yacht's decor is "a shrine to bad taste," with so many horrific touches from the '80s that it'll take another $30 million to fix it up. "Blue carpets clash with a salmon pink canopy in the master bedroom," the Times reports. "The colour schemes in other bedrooms are so loud that it is difficult to imagine sleeping in them." A floating torture chamber! There's even reportedly a secret passage way running the length of the boat (how secret can it be?). Saddam apparently didn't spend much time on the yacht, despite a 35-man crew on call 24/7.
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Source: The Times of London |
Though the current market for yachts may be softening in this economy, the Times of London quotes broker Vesa Kaukonen as saying the yacht's "history of ownership is a good selling point". Maybe some wealthy Iraqi Kurdish-American can buy the boat and have the last laugh. Here's one chance to shout "Mission Accomplished!", and be right.
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