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	Baghdad - Iraq Special Weapons Facilities
		Hussein's office is in the domed Presidential Palace, or Republican Palace, which overlooks the Tigris River.
		The palace, which measures 1.7 square miles according to the UN list, is surrounded by Republican Guard camps and apartment blocks for some of Hussein's supporters.
		Renovation to the Baghdad Republican Palace in the late 1990s tripled the size of the complex.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/iraq/facility/baghdad.htm (1498 words)

	Republican Palace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		View of the front of the Iraq Republican Palace prior to removal of the "Saddam the Warrior" bronze heads from the rooftop.
		The Republican Palace in Iraq is the largest of the palaces commissioned by Saddam Hussein and was his preferred place to meet visiting heads of state.
		The United States spared the palace during its shock and awe raid during the 2003 invasion of Iraq as it was expected to hold valuable documentation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Republican_Palace (1078 words)

	At Palace, a New Case of Shock and Awe
		At the Republican Palace, which was ringed with American soldiers, Iraqis who had sneaked in over the walls or managed to sweet talk their way past the troops were as astonished as Mohsen by the Council of Ministers Hall, a pyramid-shaped structure reported to have housed security officials, the offices of Hussein's top aides.
		The palace grounds were a study in the oddities and extravagance that characterized the behavior of Hussein and his immediate family.
		Along the river behind the main palace building, for instance, was a fenced-off enclosure with seven lions, two cheetahs and one forlorn brown bear.
	www.papillonsartpalace.com /atpalace.htm (1132 words)

	US occupation of palace irritates Iraqis - The Boston Globe
		The marble palace, which was home to three Iraqi presidents before Hussein, became the headquarters of the country's occupiers.
		US officials have expressed surprise that an issue has been made of their continued stay in the palace, which they expect to be a temporary, practical measure to house 1,500 employees during the two-year project to complete the new embassy, State Department officials told Congress this week.
		But few changes are planned for the palace, where staff members sit in cubicles in a hall lined with 20-foot mirrors and marble panels, across a towering rotunda from the thick wooden doors leading to the office of top US administrator L. Paul Bremer III.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2004/06/19/us_occupation_of_palace_irritates_iraqis (1327 words)

	The Deal
		There had been communications that took place in total secrecy between the leaders of the Republican Guard and the Commanders of Saddam's Fedayeen, unbeknownst to the Iraqi leader and his son who was in charge of a huge military organization that could have made life hell for the American forces had they joined the battle.
		As a guarantee of this (which the commanders of the Republican Guard did not completely trust), the United States disclosed some of its agents whom it had planted among the "human shields" who were guiding the American military to positions to be bombed and where President Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi leadership could be found.
		The final task of the Republican Guard Commanders gathered at the airport was to give the important information about the location of the Iraqi president and his leadership in what was to be their last meeting in al-Mansour.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article2958.htm (2264 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Inspectors search Saddam palace
		The experts were granted immediate access to the Republican Palace in Baghdad, where the Iraqi leader maintains his main office.
		Saddam Hussein's Republican Palace also houses offices for special security forces, which protect the ruling elite, and the Republican Guard - a well-trained and loyal military force.
		Palace employee Wissam Essawi told Reuters that the experts had inspected the residential quarters of palace employees, "service buildings" and the headquarters of a retired army officers' commission.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2660201.stm (700 words)

	Inspectors Search Hussein's Complex
		The nearly four-hour search of the grounds of the Republican Palace, a sprawling and secretive complex that serves as Iraq's White House, was the inspectors' most significant incursion into the nucleus of Hussein's government since they resumed their activities here seven weeks ago.
		While one U.N. team was at the palace, 10 other groups fanned out across the country in one of the most active days of inspections since searches resumed on Nov. 27.
		The palace, ringed by high cement walls and plainclothes security personnel, is usually off-limits to everyone except senior government officials and Hussein's relatives, office staff and personal security detail.
	www.iraqfoundation.org /news/2003/ajan/17_palace.html (819 words)

	CNN.com - Saddam's symbols of power hit during bombing - Mar. 22, 2003
		The 1950s-era Republican Palace was at the heart of the bombing.
		The palace compound is known to be home to the elite Republican Guard and other Saddam loyalists.
		To be able to stand only half a mile from the impact zone, to watch it all with virtual certainty that you're not going to be hit, is an astonishing thing," he reported.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/03/22/sprj.irq.baghdad.targets/index.html (689 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Troops, Tanks Attack Central Baghdad
		Troops and tanks from the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division reached the center of the city and entered the grounds of the sprawling Republican Palace, Hussein's main office and security compound, as well as the smaller Sijood Palace.
		As the Army columns moved northeast toward the Republican Palace on the banks of the Tigris, Iraqi soldiers fled along the river, some jumping in the water.
		It was unclear whether the American troops intended to stay in the palaces or to pull back to their staging areas outside the capital.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A44658-2003Apr7?language=printer (2442 words)

	GOP Operatives Lead at Iraq Press Office
		Known as the Green Room, the press office is inside coalition headquarters in the Republican Palace that used to belong to Saddam Hussein.
		The palace is in central Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.
		Republican figures also permeate the wider CPA staff, including top advisers to U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer and the Iraqi ministries.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0404-05.htm (1370 words)

	Imperial Life in the Emerald City :: Rajiv Chandrasekaran
		The engineers assigned to transform the palace into the seat of the American occupation chose a marble-floored conference room the size of a gymnasium to serve as the mess hall.
		The palace was the headquarters of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the American occupation administration in Iraq.
		They were a motley bunch: businessmen who were active in the Republican Party, retirees who wanted one last taste of adventure, diplomats who had studied Iraq for years, recent college graduates who had never had a full-time job, government employees who wanted the 25 percent salary bonus paid for working in a war zone.
	www.rajivc.com /excerpt.htm (2291 words)

	Explosions and gunfire echo round Baghdad as US forces raid palace
		As US troops claimed to have seized three presidential palaces, five massive blasts could be heard from the direction of the main complex on the banks of the Tigris, which has been pounded repeatedly since the US-led coalition launched the war March 20 aimed at toppling Saddam from power.
		On the road leading up to the presidential palace, an Iraqi militia fighter clad in military fatigues and a red keffiyeh headdress stood guard, as others around him armed with Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stopped cars from approaching at a checkpoint made of sandbags.
		US or British forces have repeatedly rained down missiles and bombs on the Republican Palace, which was built in 1982 and is said to be designed to withstand an explosion the power of the atom bomb that fell on Hiroshima in
	www.spacewar.com /2003-a/030407064736.wpcfhiwm.html (692 words)

	Crosswalk.com
		"[The Republican Guard] is under the supervision of (Saddam's son) Qusay Hussein and is commanded by Staff General Ibrahim Abdel Satter Muhammed al Tikriti," Cordesman wrote.
		He stated that significant elements of the Republican Guard could be defeated or paralyzed before they retreated into the defenses of greater Baghdad.
		According to Cordesman, the Republican Guard includes the Northern or 1st Corps, which has historically acted to defend against Iran and Turkey, operate against the Kurds and defend the greater Baghdad area and Tikrit.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/wariniraq/1192442.html?view=print (836 words)

	KTLA The CW \| Where Los Angeles Lives \| Monitors search palace in Baghdad
		UN arms inspectors entered Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's presidential palace grounds overlooking the Tigris River in the heart of the capital Wednesday as they raised the stakes in a hunt for weapons of mass destruction.
		Inspectors examined several buildings on the outer edge of the sprawling Republican Palace facility and asked for four safes to be opened but did not take material from them, according to the planning and operations chief of the UN mission.
		The Republican Palace, which sprawls along a strategic bend of the Tigris, was built in the 1950s, bombed twice during the 1991 Persian Gulf war and later repaired.
	ktla.trb.com /news/nationworld/chi-0301160436jan16,0,1960142.story (591 words)

	Intense bombing of Baghdad and Saddam palace, civilian death toll climbs
		An AFP reporter saw a missile or smart bomb explode in the heart of the Republican Palace complex around 09:00 (0600 GMT) on the 13th day of the war.
		Two missiles were seen smashing into the Republican Palace compound along the banks of the Tigris River, which had already been pounded earlier in the day.
		The eerie silence in the aftermath of the raid was broken only by the wail of ambulance sirens, their flashing red lights criss-crossing the main avenue along the river.
	www.spacewar.com /2003-a/030401084957.eikq31x5.html (767 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Bodies line the route to the palace of fear
		On the lower reaches of the palm-fringed estate, off limits to all but the most exalted members of the regime, the Guardian found the poolside palace where the ruling family used to take its pleasure: the first glimpse into the private life of the secretive trio of father and sons who terrorised Iraq for years.
		Though the Republican Guard offices at its northern gate were reduced to rubble, and troops were picking corpses off the grounds with a bulldozer yesterday, for burial along the main avenue, the complex remains imposing.
		The crescent-shaped Republican Palace was apparently never lived in by Saddam, and the US forces found almost no personal effects there.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,934364,00.html (1052 words)

	CNN.com - Lifestyles of the rich and infamous - Apr. 23, 2003
		Hussein's vacant palace bedroom anyway.) There is also the $656 million dollars that was found hidden in a gardener's shed and in other modest buildings in Baghdad, a cache that the Iraqi power elite clearly planned to recover one day.
		The Special Republican Guard, which was charged with defending the capital, however, seems not to have made much of a fight once it was clear that the American armor was on the way.
		Some of the pieces, he explained, were from the Republican Palace, others from the Huraa Library and the Mothers of All Battles Hall.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/04/23/nyt.gordon (973 words)

	French Republican Guard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The French Republican Guard (French: Garde républicaine) is the ceremonial unit of the Gendarmerie Nationale of France.
		Guarding important public buildings in Paris such as the Élysée Palace, the residence of the prime minister, call Hôtel Matignon, the Senate, the National Assembly, the Hall of Justice, and keeping public order in Paris.
		The Republican Guard mans the honour guards welcoming foreign heads of state or government; here, president Jacques Chirac welcomes then king of Cambodia]] Norodom Sihanouk to the Élysée Palace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_Republican_Guard (314 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
		To the beat of the music, Iraq's latest conquerors triumphantly take to a stage that dominates the inner courtyard of what is today the temporary US Embassy in Baghdad and bawl out old rock 'n' roll and blues anthems to their heart's content.
		The palace itself is a neo-Babylonian affair built on a massive scale and composed of tremendous pillars, bulky double-leafed doors, soaring domes and a labyrinth of passages decked out in elaborate, chintzy Middle Eastern couches and faux Louis XIV armchairs.
		The karaoke and pool-side volleyball will soon be transferred from the Republican Palace to a massive 42-hectare complex currently under construction inside the Green Zone.
	atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/HE06Ak03.html (897 words)

	Regional Review: An Economist Reports from Baghdad
		Just moments ago, standing in the palace, I saw the American military commander arrive to confirm news of their deaths.
		The area between the palace and the hotel lies within the “green zone,” completely protected by the U.S. Army.
		We sweat over laptops and gulp down bottles of water until the palace’s air conditioner is fixed at the end of June.
	www.bos.frb.org /economic/nerr/rr2003/q3/iraq.htm (2281 words)

	The State News - www.statenews.com
		On the grounds of Saddam Hussein's mosquito-infested Republican Palace in Baghdad, M. Peter McPherson sits in a white mobile home and plots the creation of a free-market economy in Iraq.
		McPherson arrived on May 9 at the Republican Palace compound, a city within a city, with hospitals, schools, houses and office buildings, that stretches more than 5 kilometers (3 miles) along the Tigris River in central Baghdad.
		After 12 days, McPherson moved into one of the air- conditioned trailers that the U.S. installed between the main palace building and the river, which are called "the villas" by jealous staff members and military personnel, most of whom still sweat through nights in the palace under mosquito netting.
	www.statenews.com /article.phtml?pk=18073 (2876 words)

	Beer, bikinis, Baghdad?
		The palace is a neo-Babylonian affair built on a massive scale and composed of tremendous pillars, bulky double-leafed doors, soaring domes and a labyrinth of passages decked out in elaborate, chintzy Middle Eastern couches and faux Louis XIV armchairs.
		At the packed buffets, the mouth-watering range of food options stretches from prime cuts of tender roast beef to crab delicacies, chili-smothered baked potatoes, a dazzling array of salads, several cakes and fruit pies for dessert, refrigerators stacked with soft drinks and an undulating array of pasta dishes.
		The karaoke and poolside volleyball will soon be transferred from the Republican Palace to a massive 42-hectare complex under construction inside the Green Zone.
	www.brazilian-bikinis.org /newsbeerbikinisbaghdad.html (811 words)

	Bush loyalists pack Iraq press office - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Inside the marble-floored palace hall that serves as the press office of the U.S.-led coalition, Republican Party operatives lead a team of Americans who promote mostly good news about Iraq.
		The office counts 21 Republicans -- 11 of whom have worked inside the Bush administration before their Iraq posting -- among its 58 U.S. civilian staffers, according to figures Senor provided.
		More than half a dozen CPA officials in the press office worked on Bush's 2000 presidential campaign or are related to Bush campaign workers, according to payroll records filed with the Federal Elections Commission.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/wire/2004/04/04/iraq_press/index_np.html (1202 words)

	CNN - Inspections of eight presidential sites in Iraq completed - April 3, 1998
		The mission was completed after the second round of inspections of the Republican Palace in Baghdad, said Jayantha Dhanapala, the head of the diplomatic group monitoring the visits.
		The palace visits began March 26 at the Radwaniyah palace in Baghdad, continued in the north and south of the country and then back in the capital as part of a Feb. 23 accord between Iraq and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
		Earlier, some 71 U.N. inspectors watched by foreign diplomats spent a second straight day at the Republican Palace, which was of special interest for the experts.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/meast/9804/03/iraq.inspections/index.html (744 words)

	Confrontations Between American Soldiers And The Iraqi Population Are Multiplying
		Palace, the palace of Saddam Hussein that has become the general headquarters
		of the palace, it was surrounded when it was forced to go through the crowd to
		Palace, one GI was killed and another wounded while posted in front of a
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article3853.htm (618 words)

	"The Waterbury Connecticut Republican American Newspaper" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Former President Bill Clinton's visit last Monday served as a snapshot of the best and worst of the efforts to revitalize East Main Street and downtown Waterbury.
		Clinton's appearance in support of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman drew about 2,000 people to the Palace Theater on a Monday afternoon, putting thousands of feet on the street and creating a buzz in the city.
		Yet, while many merchants along East Main and neighboring streets are pleased with the events and people the theater brings in, they say the Palace alone isn't enough to truly invigorate downtown Waterbury.
	www.rep-am.com /story.php?id=10496 (499 words)

	Republican Guard, US forces clash -DAWN - Top Stories; April 1, 2003
		A low-flying plane launched two missiles into President Saddam’s sprawling Republican Palace compound, the first such strike in broad daylight, sending a huge plume of fl smoke into the air.
		REPUBLICAN GUARD: South of the capital, US troops massing for a decisive push toward Baghdad saw their first serious action against Iraq’s crack Republican Guard unit near Babylon and Karbala, 110kms and 80kms respectively from Baghdad.
		Iraqi prisoners from the battle included an officer who said he was from the Nebuchadnezzar Division of the Republican Guard — a claim that surprised US commanders who said they believed this division to be based much further north.
	www.dawn.com /2003/04/01/top1.htm (1229 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The inspections started March 26 in Baghdad with searches of the Radwaniyah palace, continued in the north and south and ended a week later, again in the capital, at the Republican Palace and the Sijood Palace.
		The teams said the most important site was the Republican Palace, a 1-square-mile compound comprising a main building and ancillary villas.
		The palace visits have been described as survey missions to lay the groundwork for subsequent inspections, should they be deemed necessary.
	www.usatoday.com /news/index/iraq/iraq250.htm (723 words)

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