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Yacht built for Saddam Hussein on sale for
23.5 million euros
15.12.2007
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December
15, 2007
NICE, France,-- A super-yacht built for
former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is awaiting a
buyer in the port of Nice, with an asking price of
23.5 million euros, according to a specialist
website.
The 82-metre (270-feet) Ocean Breeze, built in 1981
by Danish shipyard Helsingor Vaerft, started life as
the Qadissiyat Saddam, but was never actually
delivered to Iraq, says
www.superyachttimes.com
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Instead it ended up in Saudi Arabia, taken over by
that country's royal family and renamed Al-Yamamah.
Saturday's daily Nice-Matin reported Saturday that
the yacht, which can take 28 passengers and has a
crew of 35,www.ekurd.net
was
moored in the Saudi port of Jeddah for 10 years.
The paper said the
vessel was disposed of earlier this year to King
Abdullah of Jordan, before being renamed again. |
Ocean Breeze, a super-yacht built for former Iraqi
dictator Saddam Hussein, is seen here in the port of
Nice. The yacht is awaiting a buyer there, with an
asking price of 23.5 million euros |
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Brokers Burgess of London are selling the yacht for
23,512,790 euros, or 34,450,000 dollars, according
to superyachttimes.com.
AFP
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