Mile-high tower: Saudi prince promises £5bn desert spire TWICE as tall as nearest rival being built

Daily Mail UK ^ | 31st March 2008 | BARRY WIGMORE

[Lester Moore]

On a clear day, the view from the top will take in the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian Ocean - providing you've a head for heights. ...

[Lester Moore]

The WTC attackers were mostly saudi. I say let'em build this thing and let's fly some UAV's into it.

Payback in kind.

[sam_paine]

That’s the most chickensh!t thing I’ve read on here in a while.

[ARE SOLE]

These cats have too many petrodollars.

[lesser_satan]

More proof that these freaks all have microscopic dicks.

[RandallFlagg]

Penile deficient little...

Nevermind.

OUR structures serve a purpose.
Their’s serve a dream.
Neener-neener-neener!

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

Tall Saudi Towers

Iran mullahs are incensed

shiny pillars topple

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

* shiny pillars fall

[grey_whiskers]

Don't worry, we can have a legitimate accident with some drunken Northwest Airlines pilots. /sarc> *HIC*

Cheers!

[oust the louse]

I wonder how the World Trade Center would measure up to those...oh that’s right,some terrorists hating our American guts knocked em down....

[Emperor Palpatine]

This is an old idea.

Genius architect Frank Lloyd Wright planned to build an office tower one mile high in Chicago back in the late 50's, but died before it could get off the drawing boards.

If anyone could have done it, Wright could have. The savages never will. They do not build, they destroy.

[eldoradude]

All you skyscratcher are belong to us.

[Lester Moore]

That’s the most chickensh!t thing I’ve read on here in a while.

I'm not sure what you mean.

[dighton]

On a clear day, the view from the top will take in the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian Ocean ...

Someone at the Daily Mail is awfully credulous. However clear the day, you’ll see nothing like that from a 747 cruising over Jeddah, let alone from a tower seven miles below it.

[Tainan]

Well...they don't do it themselves. They hire German, Swiss, French, American, etc architects and engineers to design and provide the logistics and then other foreign labor to build it. So it might be possible.

But you're correct in that they could never build such a structure.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994830/posts?page=11#11

[dighton]

(discussed here)

[353FMG]

“These cats have too many petrodollars.”

We are the reason that they have the many petrodollars. If we would just ignore the environwackos and develop our own oil industry, things would turn around fast.

[BlueDragon]

They hire German, Swiss, French, American, etc.

Yeah, and laborers to build the tower, from Africa, India, Indonesia, China, Vietnam, etc.

why, no one will be able to understand each other...

nudge, nudge

[Will88]

This sounds like something people with immense wealth they did nothing to earn might come up with. A substitute for real accomplishment and the pride of earning what you have.