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Arabia
Abdullah City to Be Built in Sri Lanka
2006-07-03
The capital of grandiosity...
Saudi Arabia will build a city named after Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah in a tsunami-affected area of Sri Lanka, Mohammed Mahmud Al-Ali, Saudi ambassador in Colombo who is currently on a visit to the capital, told Arab News yesterday. “Dubbed King Abdullah Model City, the integrated facility will have 500 houses, a clinic, a mosque, a school, a children’s playground and a shopping complex,” Al-Ali said, adding that the groundbreaking ceremony of the multimillion rupee project was launched recently in the district of Ampara, some 300 km from the capital Colombo. The envoy said that under a special program funded by the Saudi Charity Campaign (SCC), the Kingdom would construct 1,000 houses in the tsunami-affected areas, which would include 500 within the proposed city, and the rest in the districts of Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Hambantota.
Posted by:Fred

#7  lol, Grom. That must be one LARGE plaza.
Posted by: BA   2006-07-03 11:19  

#6  You forgot a big plaza for seething, Steve.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-07-03 08:51  

#5  Â“Dubbed King Abdullah Model City, the integrated facility will have 500 houses, a rifle range, a clinic, a arms dump, a mosque, a chemistry lab, a school, another arms dump, a childrenÂ’s playground and a car bomb assembly shop a shopping complex,”
Posted by: Steve   2006-07-03 08:46  

#4  I hope this will be more successful than the usual Saudi building projects. They've a tradition of building apartment blocks completely unsuited to the needs and desires of the targetted tenants, which stand empty forever after.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-07-03 06:46  

#3  It is time to kick the House of Saud out of their sandbox. Without Brit cum US indulgence, the Sauds would be custodians of a pack of camels.
Posted by: Anginens Threreng8133   2006-07-03 06:20  

#2  Big mistake. This will just be a festering wound producing "militants" just what Sri Lanka doesn't need more of but this time with an "islaic flavor"
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2006-07-03 02:46  

#1  What, no Buddhist or Hindu temples?
Posted by: ed   2006-07-03 01:23  

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