511 MILLION???!!!!
WTF are they going to build? The Taj Majal?
The US embassy being built in London will cost $1B -- it's designed as a fortress and even includes a moat. We are afraid of terrorism, and so we now design expensive buildings to protect our civil servants from the rabble.
BTW, how much does a MIRVed nuclear warhead cost? I bet we’d get a lot more for our tax dollar if we deployed a couple of these in the Hindu Kush/Pakistan border area. An embassy is nothing more than a target for terrorists in a barbarian place like Afg.