Honeymoon in beautiful Tora Bora!

Tora Bora is 100% safe, says Gul Agha Sherazi. Getting there through Pakistan and Afghanistan might be somewhat less so. "'Come To Tora Bora Caves,'" from Sky News, with thanks to Mackie:

There will soon be a new holiday destination for the most intrepid tourists, according to one newspaper.

Osama bin Laden's infamous Tora Bora caves hideout is reportedly being converted - into a £5.3m holiday resort.

It seems hotels and restaurants are being built on mountains overlooking the al Qaeda leader's secret lair in Afghanistan, says The Sun.

The newspaper quotes a former warlord-turned local governor as saying the area is now completely safe.

Gul Agha Sherazi said: "Tora Bora is world famous - but we want it to be known for tourism, not terrorism," claims the paper.

Bin Laden hid out in the network of caves in 2001 after the Taliban government was ousted.

It is believed he fled after a US bombing blitz.

Despite the fact two journalists have been killed in the area this month, Sherazi apparently insisted: "Tora Bora is 100% safe".

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Over in Kandahar, many years ago

My mother sang a song to me in tones so soft and low

Just a simple little ditty in her good old Muslim way

And I'd give the world if I could hear that song of hers today

To-ra-bo-ra-lo-ra

To-ra-bo-ra-li

To-ra-bo-ra-lo-ra

Hush now, don't you cry

To-ra-bo-ra-lo-ra

To-ra-bo-ra-li

To-ra-bo-ra-lo-ra

That's a Muslim lullaby

This is insane. Why would a family of non muslims want to visit a violent islamic country?

The women would have to wear burkas. There would be no swimming for women. No wine with dinner. Room service would be put off until the head banging was over with. There would be no fun.

Then there is the worry over kidnappings, suicide murderers, and Christian haters.

No. This is a stupid idea. If you can't be free to travel to spots without having to cover or fear for your life, there is no reason to go there. Are you issued an AK 47 when you step off the plane?

Well the Skiing would be great but can they deal with the women in shorts in summer and the tight ski gear in winter??

and what about the hot sanas and worlpools and Bikinis

This just might work look at all the Brits buying into Qutar buying up all them condos hope the same thing doesn't happen to them that happened to the Brits who bought and built homes in Spain on a wildlife perserve OH but no one told them?

But skiing might just be what Afghanistan needs all those who love a walk on the wild side.

ROTFL!!


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Apparently, the Tora Bora Chamber of Commerce is hard at work! You have to give them credit for having some entrepreneurial initiative outside of poppy cultivation.

Look at the ads all over Europe for cheap holidays in wonderful safe Egypt (stay in those Red Sea resorts, they've never had a problem, or visit Luxor before the tourists discover it) and Tunisia (les gentils organisateurs vous attendent, mesdames et messieurs, and gentilles ones as well), and Turkey (visit the wonders of Turkey -- that is, the museum at Zeugma, with whatever the Packard Foundation managed to rescue from the rapidly rising waters, and all the remains of Greek, and Roman, and Byzantine civilization that managed not to be destroyed by the hostile or at times indifferent Islamic one. Forget about the odd bomb on Istiqlal Caddesi, or thrown at Western sunworshippers on a too-bikini-ed beach. Come to Egypt, come to Tunisia, come to Turkey. Explore Petra, rose-red city half as old as time, and don't worry about the taxi drivers. Half of them are security personnel, keeping tabs on the other half -- you see, we in Jordan know our fellow Muslims, and we don't have oil, so of course we need tourism and for that reason, will try to keep you safe. Nothing personal, you understand. We just can't lose a major source of income.

"Come for the caves; stay for the jihad."

Visit the romantic caves of Tora Bora - First lose your heart, then lose your head.

A friend of a friend, and some of her other female friends, were suckered into one of those Egyptian tours last year. Got themselves an education in the process, and were never so happy to get back to the good old U.S.A. Turns out one's own eyes and ears really can be more reliable than those NYT travel section editors.

Maybe if Bin Loser's head is prominently displayed there tourism might thrive. Otherwise, what's the point of seeing some caves in a cesspool?

Having been to Tora Bora personally, I can honestly say that there isn't jack nor shit to see there except the world's largest pile of dirt and the usual filthy cretins that inhabit the rest of the country. Bamian on the other hand has potential. Not exactly the same as honeymooning in the lagoon at Bora Bora.

Kabul now has a golf course. Just ensure that you have enough room for an M-4 as well as your clubs.

hmm

"It is believed he fled after a US bombing blitz"

"being converted - into a £5.3m holiday resort"

hmmm (meosamaferasecondhere-k?)

Me thinking teeny tiny secret tunnel somewhere in a cave maybe. Flee area first, then sneak back in later if secret tunnel undetected by intensive search going not so intensive when me is reported fleeing. Next set up tourist hotel - nice.

Heh, Great Satan so stupid eh? Lignting never strike in same spot twice eh? Construction workers toss half eaten pbuh n' jam sandwiches down narrow garbage chute - Mmmm - perrier wit dat please? Later, not just tourists visiting hotel too eh?

Stupid Great Satan can't figure out super secret communication linkages trick eh? Oh where dat osama guy at? Not wit his feet up in some luxury tourist hotel fer sure.

Osama bin Laden's infamous Tora Bora caves hideout is reportedly being converted - into a £5.3m holiday resort.

It seems hotels and restaurants are being built on mountains overlooking the al Qaeda leader's secret lair in Afghanistan, says The Sun.

Maybe a great location for a bondage S/M resort.. get your limbs cut off by Burka dominatrixes. Complete with bin Laden pictures all over the joint.

If I wish to honeymoon in some exotic location, and I don't, I would chose Bora Bora over Tora Bora any day of the week. And even Bora Bora is not completely safe. If Buffalo is the armpit of the United States, then Afghanistan is the armpit of the world.

but we want it to be known for tourism, not terrorism,(*

I guess in the Islamic world, the terrorists are addressed as tourists. So OBL is a tourist in Pakiland-

Free jihad juice on arrival. Rooms with hookahs and piped poppy mist with 24-hour channels showing beheading videos and Koran recitals. Visits to open-air sharia' courts with exciting daily events. Day-time helicopter visits to Bamiyan and the Hindu Kush to see the pinnacle of the civilisation of Magnificent Islam, and also to the flea market of Peshawar for great barter deals in burkas, knives, scimitars, rifles and explosives. Free tickets on jets headed into skyscrapers to a destination of your choice. One-way transfers to North Waziristan for target practice on the passage to paradise (as slaves). On return home, dance to the tune of "I left my head in Tora Bora!"

"Some enchanted evening" (in Tora Bora).

Gee, next they'll be selling it like it's an island in the South Seas!

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

I wonder thoough--where's the Executive Hijacker's Lounge located in ol' Tora?

And what episodes, if any, of "Burqa's Law" will they be showing there?

I can't wait to go. I always wondered what it would be like to spend a couple of days in Hell-

You don’t know how much I want masses of liberal anti war types to visit and get kidnapped by a taliban with a bent, rusted, dull knife, I will buy the Dixie Chicks a ticket. (I have a mean side)

Despite the fact two journalists have been killed in the area this month, Sherazi apparently insisted: "Tora Bora is 100% safe".

It's true! Tora Bora IS 100% safe! But, YOU ain't!

I'd try to think of something clever and funny to say...if I could stop LMAO!

:))


Actually, I think it's a good idea! Just ring the whole enterprise with acres of minefields, miles of concertina razor wire, and a regiment of the best snipers NATO can supply. It would be an irresistable target for the jihadists, drawn to it like moths to flame and with the same fiery demise.

I would advertise a nudist colony there too in order to fully bait the trap. Of course no actual tourists would be there. The whole thing would be a giant Potemkin Village designed to draw in the jihadists and kill them. A Disney Land of Death. How could they stay away?

I always get mixed up between tora bora and the pacific island of bora bora.

Im sure there are some surprises waiting for the unwary holiday maker here...

Now don't mock Mr. Gul Agha Sherazi. To him such squalor is natural, and even a beautiful thing.

That is, until State and the INS put him up in a free apartment in Denver.