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[quote:71148]Bin Ladins to build world's tallest building?
Saudi contractors on short list for skyscraper project

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Posted: May 9, 2004
11:46 p.m. Eastern



© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com


Osama bin Laden's family business is on the short list of contractors bidding to build the world's tallest skyscraper.

It may seem tragically ironic that the name most closely associated with the destruction of New York's World Trade Center may soon be associated with the construction of the world's tallest building.

But, nevertheless, according to officials in Dubai – the site of the Burj Dubai, scheduled for completion in 2008 – that is more than a distinct possibility.

The Saudi Binladin Group, the biggest developer in the kingdom, begun by Osama bin Laden's father, is in the running for the project.

The skyscraper will be nearly half a mile and about one-third taller than the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. It will include a hotel wing, apartments, offices, entertainment centers and restaurants.

The project also includes one of the world's largest malls – the Dubai Mall with over 2 million square feet of retail space – and a mock "old town," making it "a city within a city."

Record-obsessed Dubai is already home to the world's largest man-made island, the Palm Jumeirah, and the world's first seven-star hotel, the Burj Al-Arab.

The Binladin group built its considerable fortune by carrying out many projects for the royal family in Saudi Arabia – including the the expansion of the two holy mosques in Mecca and Medina.

Construction of the Burj Dubai project has already started, with excavation of the site completed recently.

Sales of residential units in the tower will start soon, said an official with Emaar Properties. [/quote:71148]

Oh the irony

How come it's "The Binladin group" yet it's "Osama bin Laden"...Laden is spelled differently.

Typo or some wacky muslim thing?

In any case, that's fucked.

If you haven't noticed, Osama is also spelled Usama, and Bin Laden is spelled Bin Ladin, or ladan depending on which news network you are watching. Seriously, I remember when the attacks first happened, there must have been at least 3 variations on his name. I believe it's due to translation.

Yeah, its Usama bin Ladin over here in Scandinavia..

I wonder if the Bush family will be putting any money into this venture?

Yeah, true.

Kinda like that whackjob in Libya that everyone's friends with all of a sudden. No one seems to know how to spell his name either.

Qhadafi?
Khadhafi?
Quadhafi?

Make up yer friggin mind or better yet, ASK the fucker how it's supposed to be spelled. rolleyes:

5 dollars says Guarnere's crashing a plane into it. Noctis Co - Pilot.


happy:

rock: "Pilot to bombadier, pilot to bombadier, prepare for impact..."

[quote="TGB!":cd54c]Irony. Hardly. Osama is as far removed from tha family as you can get.

But hey leave it up to the liberal media to play up any angle they can.[/quote:cd54c]

"I don't care about politics, spin, the left or the right, I only care about irony"

fuck that, run a remote-controlled B-52 into it

CN Tower will own its ass.

Two words: Sky City.
Look it up huns, itll fuckin own that piece of shed..

[img]http://www.baverstock.com/funstuff/sky-city.jpg[/img]

eek:



















Seriously though

[img]http://www.onjix.com/ryu/homepage/image/auckland/thumb/t-sky_city02.jpg[/img]

Looks like a large dildo.

[url:ac4e6]http://media.dsc.discovery.com/convergence/engineering/skycity/interactive/interactive.html[/url:ac4e6]

THAT is Sky City..

ed:

Mad japanese.

anyone wanna come with me to fly a plane through it when its built?

*raises hand*

Only if i get to eat peanuts and fly wihtout my seatbelt!

whoa! ed:

*starts humming "cloud city" theme from star wars*

It is a very interesting and practical idea though. Makes sense when you think about the population versus size of Tokyo. Build UP not OVER.

What would have to be done though, is built each section in a manner so that if one feel there wouldnt be a mass collapse. Still it would be awesome to have each of these super-structures an actual "city".

Yea, that's beautiful. Sink to their level, and kill hundreds of thousands of innocents, just like they did us. We would be no better then themselves. Terrorists.

Jesus Christ, lighten up. I'm sure he was being serious. oOo:

look, unless it has Billy Dee Williams running it, a.k.a. Lando Calrissean, it isn't a Sky City.

LOL - That's the Sky Tower here in Auckland....It's like the 5th tallest building in the world. 1st In the southern hemisphere last I heard. Not that that is anything to be proud of. oOo:

It's fucking ugly and looks like some giant heroin head threw his syringe in the ground. I wanna kill the Auckland City council.

[quote="Airborne Butters":b1280]look, unless it has Billy Dee Williams running it, a.k.a. Lando Calrissean, it isn't a Sky City.[/quote:b1280]

It's Cloud City prequel fanboy the_finger:

[quote="Airborne Butters":02fd8]look, unless it has Billy Dee Williams running it, a.k.a. Lando Calrissean, it isn't a Sky City.[/quote:02fd8]

rock:

id volunteer to fly a bespin twin pod cloud car right through that fucker happy:

Is this in afganistan? They ought to build something there there isnt even a little hut standing.

Either way we should bomb the shit out of it

Something else for Bin Laden to blow up.

[quote="Pvt.Pinhead":7d36f]Something else for Bin Laden to blow up.[/quote:7d36f]

doubt that he'll blow up the building his family's company built...

Damn thing is big. That would be a sight to see.

Muslims already built the tallest buildings in the world in Malaysia, whats the big deal?

the petronas towers are awesome, i would like to see them up close one day

[quote:f1317]It may seem tragically ironic that the name most closely associated with the destruction of New York's World Trade Center may soon be associated with the construction of the world's tallest building.
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Says it all, really... biggrin:

Give a Japanese fantasy and he will turn it into reality.

[img]http://www.xbox-connection.com/hostedimages/petronas.jpg[/img]

I sure hope the Japanese make it strong enough so that a couple Boeings don't bring it down. Looks like a shitload of people would be living and working there.

I saw on the History channel that the WTC was designed to not topple from comtemporary planes of the time (707, 727, etc) but the newer 767s were too darn big.

[quote="Sgt Stryker":948f6]I saw on the History channel that the WTC was designed to not topple from comtemporary planes of the time (707, 727, etc) but the newer 767s were too darn big.[/quote:948f6]

Nope, they were built to withstand that aswell.
Just that they didnt take the heat from the burning fuel in consideration..