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(TALKZIMBABWE) AFRICA: Bin Laden's brother to build bridge linking Africa and Arabia

AFRICA: Bin Laden's brother to build bridge linking Africa and Arabia
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Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:44:00 +0000

OSAMA BIN LADEN’s brother wants to build the world's longest suspension bridge, linking Africa with Arabia across the world's most dangerous waters and also plans to build two new cities on each end of the bridge, says the UK’s Independent newspaper.

Named “The Al Noor project” the bridge will cost some $200bn (£100bn) and, according to reports, Sheikh Bin Laden has already ploughed hundreds of millions of dollars into the scheme himself.

The bridge will be 18 miles long, and “will link Africa with Arabia across the Bab al-Mandib (Gate of Tears), the strait connecting the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden. Two cities, one in tiny Djibouti, the other in Yemen, will sit at either end,” claims the Independent.

Bin Laden says the two cities, once finished will be the envy of the world.

They will also be models for a further 98 cities, Sheikh Bin Laden hopes to build worldwide.

Bin Laden had a grand launch in Djibouti last month attended by Djiboutian government officials, American military contractors and journalists at the Djibouti Kempinsky Palace, the country's only 5-star hotel

The project was compared to the construction of the Pyramids, the Garden of Eden and the Great Wall of China. It would be a "hope for all humanity".

Labels: INFRASTRUCTURE, SHEIKH BIN LADEN

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