Baghdad: Amusement Park for 500 Million USD

As recently reported by Spiegel Online, an American company is planning a amusement park in a hermetically sealed so-called “green zone” of Baghdad. The 500-million dollar expensive facility is to be constructed in the style of Disneyland. The investor reckons on a profitable business and, in Spiegel Online, says that the goal of his commitment is to “make a positive impact on the battered Iraqis through the most pure, thoroughly American culture of amusement”… (eap)