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Where bin Laden went down, a theme park to rise up
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| February 5, 2013
| Jeff Black
Posted on 02/04/2013 7:04:49 PM PST by Pan_Yan
Move over Orlando, here comes Abbottabad.
Pakistan's tourism officials have announced plans to build a $30 million amusement park on the outskirts of the Himalayan foothills town that gained worldwide attention as the place where U.S. Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden.
The 50-acre site will include a zoo, restaurants, water sports, miniature golf as well as rock climbing and paragliding, officials said.
Officials in north Kyber Pakhtunkwa province denied to Sky News that the project was a way to improve the town’s image after the bin Laden raid, saying the goal is simply to boost tourism.
"This project has nothing to do with Osama bin Laden," Syed Aqil Shah, the provincial minister for tourism and sports, told Sky News.
Jamaluddin Khan, the deputy provincial minister for tourism, told Reuters the project will take five years to complete, with work beginning in late February or early March.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: binladen; binladenworld; holysite; islamicmonument; napl; osamabinladen; pakistan; themepark
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posted on
02/04/2013 7:04:54 PM PST
by
Pan_Yan
To: Ezekiel
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posted on
02/04/2013 7:06:41 PM PST
by
cyn
(Benghazi...the travesty continues)
To: Ezekiel
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posted on
02/04/2013 7:06:41 PM PST
by
cyn
(Benghazi...the travesty continues)
To: Pan_Yan
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posted on
02/04/2013 7:11:10 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Pan_Yan
I heard they were going to name their coaster “the suicide bomber” or “the martyr”
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posted on
02/04/2013 7:11:40 PM PST
by
volunbeer
(We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
To: Pan_Yan
Will there be an “Osama is not Dead” ride?
Maybe a “plunge the body into the sea before positive ID”
game?
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posted on
02/04/2013 7:14:45 PM PST
by
Candor7
(Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/04/2013 7:15:19 PM PST
by
volunbeer
(We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
To: BenLurkin
“Sikhs Flags Over Abbottabad”?
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posted on
02/04/2013 7:18:44 PM PST
by
Chad N. Freud
(FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
To: Pan_Yan
Bin Laden is dead and our deficits have been cut in half.
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posted on
02/04/2013 7:18:59 PM PST
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: Pan_Yan
Will they have bombper cars?
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posted on
02/04/2013 7:20:14 PM PST
by
Chad N. Freud
(FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
To: BenLurkin
Sorry folks, Walid World is closed for Ramadan!
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posted on
02/04/2013 7:21:21 PM PST
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: Pan_Yan
.... on a serious note:
Now, what world leader would have paid them $30 million “apology money” for taking out Bin Laden? Hmmm...
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posted on
02/04/2013 7:22:06 PM PST
by
Chad N. Freud
(FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
To: Pan_Yan
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posted on
02/04/2013 7:24:33 PM PST
by
Chad N. Freud
(FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
To: Pan_Yan
The dolphin show is so-so; but you won’t forget the SEALs!
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posted on
02/04/2013 7:25:56 PM PST
by
Chad N. Freud
(FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
To: Pan_Yan
Ad campaign:
“Come C-4 Yourself!”
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posted on
02/04/2013 7:26:48 PM PST
by
Chad N. Freud
(FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
To: Pan_Yan
What muzzie amusement park would be comeplete without a petting zoo called “The Best Little Goat House In Abbottabad”.
To: Chad N. Freud
Bravo! Well played.
A la “ground zero mosque” some enterprising Christians should build a mega-church/American cultural center there...I won’t hold my breath.
To: Chad N. Freud
OMG!!!! My sides are hurting I’m laughing so hard!!!!
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posted on
02/04/2013 7:39:09 PM PST
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
To: Chad N. Freud
““Come C-4 Yourself!”
And:
“You will explode (literally) with laughter “
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posted on
02/04/2013 8:06:01 PM PST
by
HereInTheHeartland
(Lawyers have caused thousands of times more destruction to our nation than have guns)
To: Pan_Yan
This is too funny—absolutely perfect. What a contrast between the death and destruction from radicals—and good old-fashioned fun, American-style. :) At the risk of sounding like a hippy—may the good, happy energy spread far and wide. :)
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posted on
02/04/2013 8:42:11 PM PST
by
proud American in Canada
(Please pray for America. She needs God's help more than ever now.)
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