They're Making An Amusement Park In The Town Where Osama Bin Laden Was Killed

en.wikipedia.orgA painting of Abbottabad by Major James Abbott (1850)Abbottabad, Pakistan—the town best known as the place Osama bin Laden was tracked down and killed—hopes to boost tourism with a new amusement park.

"This project has nothing to do with Osama bin Laden," provincial minister for tourism Syed Aqil Shah told the AFP.

The park includes a zoo, adventure sports facility, restaurants, a heritage center, and artificial waterfalls.

In fact, Abbottabad has been a popular tourist destination since the colonial era. The town was named after the British Major James Abbott, who declared in a poem: "I adored the place from the first sight / And was happy that my coming here was right."