Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Abbottabad: Pakistani town copes with infamy after bin Laden!

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By SEBASTIAN ABBOT - Associated Press | AP – 20 minutes ago.


In this picture taken on May 5, 2011 Pakistani women walk in an alley of a market in Abbottabad, the city where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed, Pakistan. Residents of this sleepy hill town in northwest Pakistan named after a British colonial officer are still trying to come to grips with their newfound infamy as home to one of the greatest mass murderers in modern history.


ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) — The official tourist map for Abbottabad urges visitors to discover its "hidden" treasures. Some think that should include a peek behind the infamous walls ofOsama bin Laden's compound.
It makes sense to the deputy head of the tourism office.
The three-story villa is known around the world. Abbottabad is already popular as an alpine escape from the summer heat. And a museum at the last stand of the al-Qaida leader could mine some long-term cash from the town's instant brush with notoriety.
"It was a very important event, and I believe people from around the world would be very interested to visit it," said tourism official Yar Mohammed.
The very shock of realizing the World's most notorious and most recognised Terrorist had been living among them itself takes a long time to forget!  Now residents of Quetta better start worrying as Mullah Omar is said to be living there.
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