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Saudi Arabia Offers to Build World's Largest Football Stadium in Iraq

posted by janrinok on Tuesday March 13 2018, @08:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the buying-influence dept.

takyon writes:

The King of Saudi Arabia has offered to build the world's largest football stadium in Baghdad, Iraq, for free:

[According] to Arabnews.com, that is precisely what has happened to the Iraq football association, who this week, following their recent 4-1 friendly win over Saudi Arabia, have been afforded the opportunity to house a 135,000-seater stadium within Baghdad after King Salman offered to foot the bill.

"I have received a phone call from the King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdul Aziz", Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said.

"He hailed Iraqi's victory (in the friendly match between the two sides last week) and expressed his preparedness and commitment to expanding positive relations between Iraq and Saudi Arabia at different levels - economical, commercial, communal, cultural - at all levels that are of interest for the two countries.

"He also offered Saudi Arabia's contribution to build a main stadium in Iraq that accommodates 100,000 people. We have welcomed the initiative and it was proposed today to the Cabinet."

Also at Reuters.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by FatPhil on Tuesday March 13 2018, @04:53PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday March 13 2018, @04:53PM (#651877) Homepage
    I like to think that here in Estonia we have an amalgum of the best of the Swedish (imperially), Finnish (ugri-mugri brothers), and Russian[*] (again, imperially) genes, but even I am consistently surprised how large a proportion of middle-eastern females are simply stunning - Lebanon in particular. The dark eyes and hair do it for me (don't let my g/f see my type that!).

    Sure, you may have seen "typical" middle easterners on the news or documentaries - but the chances are you're watching people who have had tough lives, that's what makes them interesting for the report, and they aren't going to be the most pampered or diet conscious of people to say the least. These kinds of socioeconomic differences show themselves in all countries. And the sample selection is hardly unbiased, as the US faces you see on US telly tend more to be the "beautiful people".

    [* Russia's huge and divers of course, the concept of a Russian gene stock is as fuzzy as that of a European gene stock]
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