Bin Laden's hideout is touted as tourist site

[T_i_B]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/04/wafg04.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/12/04/ixportal.html

The Afghan authorities plan to invigorate the country's fledgling tourist industry by developing Osama bin Laden's Tora Bora mountain hideout as a visitor attraction.

Dr Hassamuddin Hamrah, the man in charge, believes that the caves which once housed bin Laden and his fighters, together with the remains of mangled Russian tanks and crashed helicopter gunships from the 1980s, will prove a tourist magnet.

But he said the plan was being undermined by scrap metal merchants from across the border in Pakistan who were taking the wrecked military hardware. "We wished to keep the artillery, tanks, aircraft and also the military posts and front lines. But the Pakistanis have frustrated our plans," Dr Hamrah said.

"We have plans to make a tourist site at the Tora Bora caves. Many Americans wish to go there," Dr Hamrah said.

[LynnTheDem]

1. ROTFLMAO!!! But wait, BUSHCARTEL say OBL wasn't in Tora Bora!

Oh man, this is PRICELESS!!!

ROTFLMAO!!!

[The Zanti Regent]

13. Folks, this is the Telegraph after all...

the ones who had to fork over BIG £££££ because they lied about George Galloway!

[daleo]

2. "And this is the room where Zarquawi's extra legs were kept"

I can imagine the guided tour of this place.

[LynnTheDem]

4. Ouch...

soda up my nose from laughing

*SNORT*

[Paul Hood]

3. For the really adventurous traveller.

From the same article,

Tourism was once a major industry for Afghanistan. In the 1960s and 1970s the country was a key stopping point on the Hippy Trail from Europe to India - famed for its spectacular scenery, ancient ruins and local intoxicants. But the Russian invasion of 1979 placed Afghanistan off limits and, for 25 years, it has remained in tourist limbo.

On a Hippy Trail head full of zombies.

[sherilocks]

5. Let's arrange a tour bus

Any DU travel agents out there? Tora Bora Cave Tour for the adventuresome DUer. B-)

[acmavm]

6. Will they have the ghost of Rod Serling conduct the tour? This is

straight out of the Twilight Zone.

The irony is hilarious.

[durablend]

7. Will OBL be the zoo exhibit?

Like Big Foot...in a glass room behind velvet ropes?

[0007]

9. Zarqawi will be operating the Cruise Ships with a real live like

wax museum of Abu Ghraib. Of course junior along with the Carlyle boys will be getting a cut.

[BlueDog2u]

8. Read the link/eom

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1043872&mesg_id=1043872

[VegasWolf]

10. awol and rummy should go, it would probably the closest they

will ever get to him.

[Liberty Belle]

11. Will they sell opium in the gift shop?

After all, the warlords are growing so much of it since the US shipped all its peacekeeping troops off to Baghdad.

[flygal]

12. The hijackers' apt. in Hamburg gets a lot of curiosity seekers too?!! WTF