Al-Rashid Hotel
| Hotel Al-Rashid | |
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 Side view of the hotel |
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| Data | |
| place | Baghdad |
| architect | Hultin & Lundquist Arkitekter AB |
| Construction year | 1982 |
| Coordinates | 33 ° 18 '58.3 " N , 44 ° 23' 21.1" E |
The Hotel Al-Rashid ( Arabic فندق الرشيد, DMG Funduq ar-Rašīd ) is an 18-story hotel in Baghdad , Iraq , which is mainly used by journalists and media workers. It is named after Hārūn ar-Raschīd .
history
During the Gulf War in 1991, Peter Arnett reported on the acts of war here. That made both him and the hotel world famous. After the Gulf War in 1991 until the Iraq invasion in 2003, the building was used by Western businessmen and diplomats and the foreign press.
After the invasion , the hotel was converted into a base for the coalition forces and the US Army. On October 26, 2003, ten 68 mm and 85 mm Katyusha rockets were fired at the hotel, killing Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Buehring and wounding 17 others. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz was also in the hotel but was uninjured.
A mosaic showing former US President George HW Bush senior with an expression of astonishment on his face was placed on the hotel lobby floor after the first Gulf War in 1991. The intent was that visitors had to run across the face to get into the hotel (which is a serious insult in Arab culture). The mosaic was destroyed after the invasion by US troops and replaced with the portrait of Saddam Hussein .
Before the Iraq invasion in 2003, the hotel housed a shopping mall and an internet café .
photos
The entrance area
Entrance area
Web links
- Report on CNN ( Memento of November 19, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Profile of the Emporis.com building (accessed November 27, 2010)
- ^ Charles H. Buehring - Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army. In: arlingtoncemetery.net. October 27, 2003, accessed January 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Army Lt. Col. Charles H. Buehring. In: thefallen.militarytimes.com. Retrieved January 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Visit to Iraq: Paul Wolfowitz escapes attack in Baghdad , Spiegel Online , October 26, 2003, accessed on November 27, 2010
- ^ The War of Images , FAZ , January 5, 2007, accessed on November 27, 2010