25-million-dollar Coca-Cola plant opened in Afghanistan

[Jcrowley]

Making the world safe for Coca-Cola.

25-million-dollar Coca-Cola plant opened in Afghanistan
Sun Sep 10, 4:29 PM ET

KABUL (AFP) - President Hamid Karzai formally opened a 25-million-dollar Coca-Cola bottling plant, one of the most significant investments in Afghanistan since the ousting of the Taliban five years ago.

Karzai said it was an endorsement of the government's efforts to push ahead with reconstruction of the war-damaged country.

The plant had its first products, which will compete with imports from Pakistan and Iran, on the streets of the capital in January. Its initial formal opening was postponed in May after riots in which hordes of men rampaged through the city, setting fire to buildings and vehicles after a deadly traffic accident involving a US military vehicle.

The investment by a Dubai-based Afghan family is one of the biggest in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Mobile telecommunications network Roshan has spent about 180 million dollars setting up here.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060910/bs_afp/afghanistaneconomy_060910202934

[jellybeancurse]

1. At least we know where the priorities are....

:thumbsdown:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Good, Afghan children need rotten teeth and diabetes. n/t

[seabeyond]

3. that is why they put commercial robots shooting hippies

told the coke business, they use to sing with hippies and peace and harmony, then go to robots shooting the hippies, wtf....

it is was to say thank you to repugs for getting them afghanistan

[katsy]

4. Any guesses on the lifespan of this plant? n/t

[Roland99]

5. $25million? That's pretty damn small.

[Jcrowley]

6. Peanuts

for U$ but big bucks in other realms. And hey pavin' the way for corporatocracy one brick at a time.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. You know, If I had 25 million to invest...

I don't think I'd build anything in Afghanistan at the moment.

[Imagevision]

8. Recent upsurge of Taliban in Afgan will love this...