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Bin Laden Group to build world's tallest tower
Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding has hired Saudi Bin Laden Group to build the world's tallest skyscraper in Jeddah, Gulfnews.com reports.
Jeddah Tower will be 1,000 meters (3,281 feet) tall and will contain a Four Seasons luxury hotel, apartments, condominiums and offices that overlook the Red Sea, Financial Times reported.
Kingdom Holding is paying Bin Laden Group, one of the world's largest construction companies, about $1.2 billion to take on the five-year project, according to Financial Times.
Saudi Bin Laden Group was founded in 1931 by Muhammad Awad bin Laden, the billionaire father of terrorist Osama bin Laden. It built much of Saudi Arabia's highways and infrastructure, as well as entire districts and cities.
The company constructed additions to the Muslim nation's two holiest mosques in Mecca and Medina. It operates throughout the Middle East and was chosen in 1964 to reclad the golden Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem.
Over the years, Saudi Bin Laden Group has expanded into a conglomerate that includes engineering, manufacturing and telecommunications, according to business analysis site Hoovers.com.
Osama bin Laden, the 17th of 52 children, inherited part of his father's fortune, but his radical activities led the family to disown him in 1994.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, announced the tower building contract Tuesday. He owns 95% of Kingdom Holding, according to Financial Times.
When completed, Jeddah Tower will easily surpass Dubai's 828-meter (2,717-foot) Burj Khalifa as the world's tallest building.
The Chicago firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture designed the project and will oversee its development, Gulfnews.com reported. Adrian Smith was one of Burj Khalifa's designers when he was with Skidmore Owings and Merrill.
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That government can take care of its society with the value of its natural resources.
Our government could only take care of our society with our society's production of something–anything–of real value.
They have enough stuff to go around.
We don't.
Lets bomb it.
Let's fly a couple of our drones into it. Great minds think alike!
Oh . . . and let's make sure they are loaded with fuel!
Why waste so much valuables, our main RAT HUNTERS?
Rather just ONE cruise missile would do the job in one stroke !!!
Its time that Muslim start sending drones to hunt down western terrorists.
Those ppl have so much money they do stupid things like that with it. They should be thanking the Americans b/c as much as they jack up the oil prices we are paying for it. I hope they get bomb threats once a week.
Terrorists won't fly an airliner into it. It's in the Kingdom.
right!! Saudis don't have Dick Cheney
Anyone thinking what im thinking? Not that we haven't done enough, but it would be funny if they finished it and on its opening day something happened.
Maybe a huge earth tremor will take that monstrosity down or maybe a small asteroid will strike it. Kind of like the terrorists flying the jets into the trad centers. Who would be stupid enough to live in a place like that?
Wait until its finished and full of happy Arabs,... Then We know what should come next.... PAYBACK!!!
Way to go CNN. "Let's make sure to highlight the name Bin Laden, as if it's somehow related to the terrorist."
its owned by the same family, genius.
And that is it, thats the only connection. All these people wanting it to be hit by jets or calling it payback, thats stupid.
Its as good as the reasons 9/11 happened, sprinkled lovingly with revenge.
Osama was exiled from the family. Quite a few of us have a nutty relative, uncle who is in prison, etc, that doesn't mean the whole family is screwed up.
So, will they have a separate elevator for ladies?
This society is so backward, why do we care about them building the largest building in the world?
Saudi Arabian society is "allowed" because they have oil and (our) money....
...sigh...
Why do you assume the women will get an elevator? Try the stairs!
They are not much different than any right wingers in USA.
YOUR MONEY??????? What money???????? you don't have money nor oil as much as they do. Saudis are major holder of the treasury bills (YOU DEBT) its their money not yours, all you produce is debt and other countries paying for your lifestyle, all you pay for if youre paying is INK to print paper and other countries paying tonnes of money investing into vault
Bin Laden? That... that's the name of the guy who attacked my country! The two must be related, having the same name and all. As an American, I am angry about this.
So let's see, the Bin Laden group who cast out Osama is now vilified for continuing with their lives after casting out Osama? We want to do harm to folks who cast out Osama from their family? I thought not wanting OBL in your family is a good thing. Do all of you want OBL in your family? FAIL.
Thank you for pointing that out. Some people are so blind on here.
what a slap in the face!
Would it be considered irony if some American Christian extremists flew a plane into it?
Yes, it would be ironic.
No, it would be considered just.
'whoa – No, it would be considered just.'
Wow that you think that crashing a plane into a tower, built by a company whose supposed 'crime' is that it is owned by family members of a terrorist, is a just action, is scary as hell.
@Cedar – it's a damn good thing you weren't around on Dec 7, 1941. Am I vengeful – you bet your ass!!!
It would be considered, among many things, ironic. I would consider it Return Fire.
Don't wet yourself Cedar Rapids, it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
That's f***ed up. Kill a bunch of innocent people in retaliation for a group of barbarians doing the same? I would have liked to think that we Americans are on higher moral ground than barbaric terrorists. Perhaps I was wrong.
Get over it, Bin Laden is dead and I was happy when that finally happened. His family already exiled him, I'm sure you're perfectly ok with being punished in the event one of your relatives commits a crime though?
And than Muslims will have every reason to invade America and west.
collins61
Yes it is going to get worse and Nazis like you are going to get eliminated.
It's a ruse...the damn thing is an ICBM – aimed at the USA.
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What say, y'all?