Nbadan
12-06-2004, 04:21 AM
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.
Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/04/wafg04.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/12/04/ixportal.html)
Can you imagine the tour... "And this is the room where Zarquawi's extra legs were kept"
:lol
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.
Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/04/wafg04.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/12/04/ixportal.html)
Can you imagine the tour... "And this is the room where Zarquawi's extra legs were kept"
:lol