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U.S. forces found and killed the al-Qaida leader in the affluent Pakistani town of Abbottabad, where he had been living in a large compound.
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.
U.S. forces killed the al-Qaida leader and director of the 9/11 attacks in a daring raid on his hideout in May 2011. The large white villa is not far from an elite Pakistani military academy. The villa was demolished in 2012.
Some people have suggested that the government should build a public park on the land where the compound once stood, Reuters reported, though that idea was rejected because it might be dubbed "Osama Park."
According to the Pakistan tourism ministry’s website, Abbottabad is a popular summer resort area and a gateway to mountain adventures.
"It is a charming town spread out over several low, refreshingly cool and green hills," the site reads.
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I think Bin Laden was actually watching water sports videos on the VCR when he was killed.
(Wink Wink).
$30,000,000 sounds more like a county fair than an amusement park. I wonder if they'll have a shooting game where you can kill Ben Laden and win a stuffed animal, a Jack Daniel's mirror would also be cool.
They should include a Dunbo ride in the shape of Predator Drones to celebrate this site............
Dumbo, not Dunbo...
I think they should have one of those BB gun target games on the spot where he bought it.
Actually, this is what he was really watching. Unedited and legitimate! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ql_fCOwpWY
awesome setup.... I'm gonna record Leno, Letterman and Fallon tonight.... can't get any better than a UBL carnival...
Thanks Dumbo Jog, LOL, the spelling police.
Here is how a pakistani theme park attractions looks like:
1. The Jihadis - Ride 3D
2. Blow Up - Factory Tour
3. Osama 360 - 3D
4. The Khalid Sheikh Muhammads - Ride
5. Revenge of Al Jawahiri - Ride
6. Bombing The Taj in Mumbai - 4D
7. How to Build a Suitcase Nuclear Bomb - Stage Show
8. Meet the Terrorists - Characters Meet and Greet
9. Taliban's Top Ten Mujaheddin - Amphitheater Show
10. House of Terror
Entry Free. Exit Uncertain.
I wonder how long it will take the militant (all muslims really) factions in Pakistan to bomb this once it's built.
Funniest thing...it's probably U.S. taxdollars going to build this, you know, "aid money." The same kind of aid money we send to Egypt (8 billion dollars to the Muslim Brotherhood in ONE transaction.)....
while your there buy a fuse for your teeny shoes...not to mention the free fire work displays at ground level...be the envy of infidels every where...at the bin laden themed 'we'll keep an eye out for ya shooting gallery'...
100 degree heat day in and day out, terrorists around every corner, beheadings instead of cotton candy...don't forget to use the "tear down a thousand year old infidel shrine" booth and win a free shoe bomb, oh, and I almost forgot, we close just five times a day for prayer, no rides during these prayer times or YOU will be beheaded... welcome to Abbotabad Pakistan.
What they call "rock climbing" is lost in translation. We call it "throw rocks at per-pubecent girls and kill them before the red curse turns them into harlots". You can't miss it - it's right next to the cotton candy machine.
"This project has nothing to do with Osama bin Laden," Syed Aqil Shah, the provincial minister for tourism and sports, told Sky News. "The name, Ladenland, was actually named after Abdul Laden, who is no relation to Osama."
Wow. Considering the Pakistan government was probably bribed to put him there and hide him in the first place, I find it interesting that they would do this. Not surprised mind you, but still.
It just goes to show that the country of Pakistan is so corrupt that it's government will capitalize on a situation any way it can. Not that something like a theme park on Bin Ladden's death wouldn't be done here... Or more specifically, a movie on Bin Ladden's death...
I don't know that they did get him. I didn't see him. However the government would never lie to the people.
There is a lot of confusion about that, however to clear things up I just had a beer with Osama last night at my favorite bar, you know the one it's the same one that Elvis is a regular at.
If a Pakastani says it's not about Bin Laden...
...then, it's not about Bin Laden.
What's not to trust?
Okiciize......didn't you know? Obama got him, Obama said so many many times while campaigning. Obama got him.
Hey - I am wondering where they got the money for an amusement park .......
Osama bin LadenVILLE financed by American Tax Payers.... We should definitely get free rides!
LOL!! What mountain adventures?? Beheading trips, Hostage Mania, Dodge the Drones?
Opening day should be a target rich environment. Hey Obama! You reading this?! Hint, hint.
How about a Wack-O-Sama!
Cool, now every time our predators hit a target we win a stuffed animal! (Check it for explosives!)
So, who's first down the Wild Burka Water Slide? Not me.
I don't doubt that the area is beautiful, but I am wondering what constitutes "amusement" in this culture.
"The 50-acre site will include a zoo, restaurants, water sports, miniature golf as well as rock climbing and paragliding, officials said."
Zoo should have a Sunni, Shiite, Sufi, Ahmedia and other sect mosques;
graveyards of all those, who made Pakistan a dirtiest swamp on earth;
bomb factory such that all can be blown up when required;
and
a reception center where tickets can be purchased for shows on raping, kidnapping, stealing, looting, begging for monies or supplies and genocides of minorities.
Here goes Porkistan instead of Pakistan, a pure Islamic nation!
Nah, the Pakis will probably name the place OsamaLand. That way they will have fewer problems with the militants!
They've got to do something to redevelop the site. Bin Laden doesn't need it any more...
I can't wait to ride the 'Waterboard a Terrorist' ride!
Bill, that ride won't work in Pakistan, but I'm sure a "Watch American go down the Toilet" ride will be a success! Pakistani's have endorsed Obama as President, but not in the way our 47%ers did... or thought they did!
Will anybody with a little sense visit Pakistan?
"Pakistan tourism ministry’s website, Abbottabad is a popular summer resort area and a gateway to mountain adventures.
"It is a charming town spread out over several low, refreshingly cool and green hills," the site reads."
Just examine, how followers of religion of "love" and "peace" can tear a place to pieces in no time!
Just think, the new amusement park may offer "Sight Seeing" tours.... for where OBL went down.
Maybe they will have a "Shoot Bin Laden" game or a Ride the Wild Seals!
Maybe by the time it's built and the Al-Griswold family is driving to it with crotchety old gramps Ayman Al-Zawahiri in the back seat, he'll croak in his sleep on the way there! It's "holiday roads" for Al Qaeda.
I always give my kids a list of places to choose from for our next vacation. Disney, Hawaii, DC, and now Abbottabad. Lets go kids!!
Ah, ah. "This project has nothing to do with Osama bin Laden," Syed Aqil Shah, the provincial minister for tourism and sports, told Sky News.
So it will be known as the "Bin Laden Park". Complete with aiplane rides, shooting ranges, explosive vest making workshop and a porn area for those under 12 years old. Some legacy.
While wearing a burqa? Missing their demographic. I would put a RPG paintball facility, a blow up the infidel's hummer flume ride, Something based on beheading polytheists, a handgrenade toss game based on bottle /ring toss etc etc. (sarcasm)
I guess they will call it "SIX FLAGS OVER OSAMA'
Six Seals over Osama
Remove a little filth from the world, and you make room for happiness and excitement! Oh, and profits...
I think they should open a sewage treatment plant on the site.
Build the world's largest porta potty on the site. No paper, just cardboard hand cutouts. Fitting tribute.
Why treat it?
It would be fitting for Osama, but remember that there were also SEALS that died there. I'm not sure their families would appreciate such a memorial.
@da doc good one...lol
argumentativebutfair I do not believe any seals were killed when they attacked and killed Osama, in fact I don't believe any of them were even hurt only the helicopter they lost.
You can't put a sewage treatment plant in that "affluent" town, that would be an eyesore among those beautiful homes!....uh...never mind.
If that's an affluent home, then I'm not feeling so bad about my house!
What are you gonna do NOW?
I am going to PAKISTAN !
If you do, watch out. The park may very likely also be a popular spot for suicide bombers.
Wouldn't you love to submit designs for the miniature golf course?
That could be a riot actually!
I wish them the best. I think that an amusement park that would attract the more rural people in and create jobs where a customer is a customer and all customers are treated the same, and not as members of __(name of clan, village, sect)_— would be a great advantage to the country.
Seal Team 6! You just wasted Bin Laden! What now?
We're going to PAKILAND!
Rub it in guys they deserve it.
I hear the theme parks signature drink will be the Osama, 2 shots and a splash of water.
But seriously, at first I thought it was a bad idea, but now I think it will trivialize the man who deserves trivialization. The Islamic Fundamentalist would hate an amusement park so I like it. I do fear retribution from the terrorists.
The reality is that UBL was weak when he was killed, the AQ franchises did not listen to him and in fact he wanted to distance himself from them. He had no sway over the AQ franchises and only Somalia wanted to join AQ central.
southasia
I think you should have said "Joe Flacco, what are you going to do now?"
And you got all of this intelligence from where exactly?
Razzgrizz
Osama Bin ladin Files Skyhorse Publishing. Its some of his letters he wrote and received. His coments on Biden in the 19th letter are interesting as well. It's good insight into his thought patterns.
Wow. You can't make this up.
It's Obama's fault!
It can either be "Bush's fault" or "Obama's success" nothing else.
This is funnier than 'Wally World.' Maybe they'll have a space mountain type ride simulating a high-jacking.. and a haunted house where Osama dummy pops out to scare the kids, free admission for card-carrying jihadis, camel rides, stoning games, what islamic fun! And I thought they didn't have a sense of humor!
I am all for a number of the Futurama style suicide booth attractions.
The Pakis will do anything to completely obscure their complicity in Bin Laden's ability to hide right under their noses.
Al-Qaeda Land... Love it. Does the Taliban and Tea-Parties get in free?
Top attractions:
- Suicide Bomber Monorail
- Beheadin' Video Screamin'
- No Takeoffs or Landings Flying School
- Roadside Bomb Ride
- Little Tykes Terrorist Training Camp
- Osama's Fun Wheel
you forgot Put'n his Eye, shooting range.
You forgot to mention, the Park opens up by burning the American Flag. Paid for by the US aid of course.
Almost forgot, nightly honor killings.
The theme park will be open from 10 a.m. to zero dark thirty p.m.
you silly...lol
Awesome a Zoo, A shooting range and a restaurant all within 100yds. The theme of the park is Shoot'm in the Eye.
There will be blood.
Nothing you guys and gals can say that would be worse than going to an arena to watch your fellow humans being stoned and beheaded. You may think your suggestions are funny but they have already thought of them and I'm sure are planning them.
C'mon. Disney World ain't THAT bad. It's getting close, though.