Bin Laden is dead, official

[tater]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

In our country maybe. In other countries, it can be expensive. As an example, i spent some time in central america. You can always tell the folks who have money from the folks that don't. The folks that didn't have money, made their houses (more like huts) out of wooden materials. The folks that did have money, made their houses out of cinderblock. You may not think a 12 by 10 foot cinderblock house to be expensive, but for that area... it was.

I totally agree. But his place was expensive for HERE. It said a million dollars, not a million durka jihads (or whatever paki money is ).

a 12 ft wall, 100 ft long, and a foot thick is ~44 yards of concrete. That's ~$4500 here in the US. The whole thing could be poured and we'd be talking well under 100 grand. I just checked and a bag of cement (not sure the weight) is $3.80 in Islamabad. Even if not an 80# bag, that's cheap. Labor costs are on the order of a couple bucks a day per person.

Dunno where the million buck went, but it ain't visible

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Originally Posted by tater

Dunno where the million buck went, but it ain't visible

Visible, that's the point. OBL probably spent a million a year on bribes to the local ISI branch to STFU when the boys from Langley came around.

[August]

Originally Posted by tater

I totally agree. But his place was expensive for HERE. It said a million dollars, not a million durka jihads (or whatever paki money is ).

a 12 ft wall, 100 ft long, and a foot thick is ~44 yards of concrete. That's ~$4500 here in the US. The whole thing could be poured and we'd be talking well under 100 grand. I just checked and a bag of cement (not sure the weight) is $3.80 in Islamabad. Even if not an 80# bag, that's cheap. Labor costs are on the order of a couple bucks a day per person.

Dunno where the million buck went, but it ain't visible

Sounds like Osama should have hired you as his general contractor Tater! Maybe you could start a business. "Cheap Lairs for Frugal Fugitives (CLFF).

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by tater

I totally agree. But his place was expensive for HERE. It said a million dollars, not a million durka jihads (or whatever paki money is ).

a 12 ft wall, 100 ft long, and a foot thick is ~44 yards of concrete. That's ~$4500 here in the US. The whole thing could be poured and we'd be talking well under 100 grand. I just checked and a bag of cement (not sure the weight) is $3.80 in Islamabad. Even if not an 80# bag, that's cheap. Labor costs are on the order of a couple bucks a day per person.

Dunno where the million buck went, but it ain't visible

Well, is in an expensive hood for many past government and military officials. I'm sure many other items were worked into the cost of the house, playstation, large screen TV's, services by ho's, probably a few cars,...you know how they have to play with the money.

[tater]

I'm just surprised real estate is so expensive someplace I consider to be a sh*thole.

Regardless, the house was neither a mansion, nor "luxurious."

Maybe land is really expensive 800 yards from their military academy.

[Armistead]

I finally just looked at it.. Damn, must be New York land prices there. I could build that here in America for less than a mil.

[Biggles]

So a real estate ripped Osama off, serves him right!

[August]

Who came up with the 1 million figure? Is it based at all on actual cost or is it more like a "million dollar haircut"?

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Originally Posted by August

Who came up with the 1 million figure?

[tater]

Originally Posted by August

Who came up with the 1 million figure? Is it based at all on actual cost or is it more like a "million dollar haircut"?

I think you are right. The press is simply doing what they do... Making stuff up.