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Quoting GeorgiaAME (Reply 1): Hey, it's good work, if you can get it. And it's good to be the king, having lots of oil doesn't hurt. Good to know that our leaders (and their wives) don't live that ostentatiously. |
Quoting glideslope (Reply 5): ....and what is with the exterior? Primer? |
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Quoting RWA380 (Reply 8): And the billion or so dollars released of frozen assets will be used rebuilding that poor war torn country. |
Quoting faro (Reply 6): Funny how easily we can be impressed by opulence when the prevalence of extreme expenditure is the one of the cheapest, most insignificant indicators of a country's economic and human development... Faro |
Quoting m404 (Reply 18): It could certainly be sold for funds |
Quoting glideslope (Reply 21): What is the significance with the 9's? |
Quoting Viscount724 (Reply 26): It's to commemorate the 9/9/99 date of the Sirte Declaration (named for the Libyan city where the meeting was held), which was the first step in the establishment of the African Union a few years later. http://www.au.int/en/about/nutshell |