Wanna buy an embassy? 29 are for sale

[babylonsister]

I guess using diplomacy wasn't ever a strong point for the cabal. This pretty much proves
they have no intention, and screw future admins.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070430/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/embassies_for_sale;_ylt=AsgEg5r3sT5uyLerxb0gDpXMWM0F

Wanna buy an embassy? 29 are for sale

By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer Mon Apr 30, 2:06 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Looking for a stately home or opulent office overseas? One in a posh neighborhood or overlooking an exotic capital? Maybe with a glorious or infamous past? The U.S. government may have a deal for you.

From Kinshasa to Katmandu, Bangkok to Bogota, U.S. embassies, ambassadorial residences and other diplomatic digs are up for sale as the State Department moves its employees to more secure locations, upgrades facilities and combines operations in multipurpose compounds.

Some 29 properties worth more than $205 million are now on the market in 21 countries, including a huge and historic embassy annex in the heart of London, large chancery buildings in Panama, Nicaragua and Nepal and homes fit for envoys extraordinary in Belize and Venezuela.

The former house of the No. 2 at the U.S. Embassy in Canada, once featured in a Paul Newman film, is also for sale, as is a magnificent manse in the steamy Indonesian capital of Jakarta and a gem with multiple swimming pools and tennis courts in Ivory Coast.

With an asking price of $180 million, the immense former Navy Annex fronting Grosvenor Square in London's Mayfair district is probably beyond most budgets. Ditto for the old U.S. Embassy in Nepal, $6 million, described as a "grand colonial estate."

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