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Sat 29 Jan 2011

High class dining in Dubai

Posted by Dill under Buildings, Culture
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Touted by developers in the United Arab Emirates as “the world’s highest restaurant”, the At.mosphere lounge began seating guests on Sunday on the 122nd floor of the world’s tallest building, the 828-metre Burj Khalifa.


http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2011/01/24/dubai-tallest-restaurant360.html

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Sat 8 Jan 2011

Wikileaks hits Dubai – exposes Afghan money laundering

Posted by Dill under Politics
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In one astonishing incident in October 2009 the then vice-president, Ahmad Zia Massoud, was stopped and questioned in Dubai when he flew into the emirate with $52m in cash, according to one diplomatic report. Massoud, the younger brother of the legendary anti-Soviet resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, was detained by officials from the US and the United Arab Emirates trying to stop money laundering, it says.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/02/wikileaks-elite-afghans-millions-cash

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