Official says Victory Base Complex, icon of U.S. military, is now under Iraqi control
00:00 - 01 يناير, 1970
Inside palace walls built by Saddam Hussein, U.S. generals plotted the war’s course, tracked the mounting death toll and swore in new American citizens under gaudy glass chandeliers.
Just outside the palace, American troops whacked golf balls into man-made lakes or fished for