it’s all about the workers
First Kuwaiti, the company that built the US Embassy in Iraq, built it using slave labor.
It’s alleged that “foreign employees were taken into Iraq under false pretenses and then could not leave because the company had taken their passports.” Oh yeah, and workers were told they were going to Dubai, not Baghdad, so they had no idea where they were going till they got there. Second link is a youtube video of the Oversight Committee hearing “Allegations of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse at the New U.S. Embassy in Iraq.”
The contractor got $600 Million and used kidnapped men to do the work. The government is pointing fingers at who to blame, so someone is making a pretty penny on this mess.