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Saudi plans $1.25b expansion of Prophet Mosque
RIYADH — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, has allocated $1.25 billion for expansion work at the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah, official media said yesterday.

King Abdullah, who acceded to the throne of the kingdom after the death of his half-brother king Fahd on August 1, ordered that the expansion work started at the holy place be completed at a cost of 4.7 billion riyals. The work includes the construction of courtyards, roads, car parks and tunnels.
No mosque is complete without a proper ammo dump tunnel.

Posted by: Steve White 2005-08-21
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