They need some death-defying roller coasters in Iraq! - Today’s Headlines 4/25/08
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Baghdad to get ‘Disneyland’ style amusement park. (Think Progress) At the cost of nearly $500 million, a Los Angeles-based company is “developing the Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience, a massive American-style amusement park that will feature a skateboard park, rides, a concert theatre and a museum.” The park “is being designed by the firm that developed Disneyland.” The company’s owner says “the time is ripe” for profit and entertainment to collide in Iraq. Because there’s not enough entertainment in Iraq. What they need is some death-defying roller coaster rides.—Caro
while they enjoy the amusement park foreign companies also can enjoy rights to their resources.
"...Mr Werner, who has been sold a 50-year lease on the site by the Mayor of Baghdad for an undisclosed sum, says that the time is ripe for the amusement park...
“I wouldn’t be doing this if I wasn’t making money” he said. “I also have this wonderful sense that we’re doing the right thing – we’re going to employ thousands of Iraqis. But mostly everything here is for profit.”
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