Improving Mecca's infrastructure

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http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/hajj/2009/11/200911250505146948.html


Every year, millions of Muslims gather in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca to perform Hajj. The city's Grand Mosque overflows with pilgrims and many more clamour for space outside the mosque's walls.

That is a reality that Saudi authorities are hoping to change, with an ambitious expansion and renovation project under way across the city.

Osama al-Bar, the mayor of Mecca, sat down with Al Jazeera to discuss the project, which will see $125bn spent over the next 10 years to expand the city's infrastructure and holy sites.
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wish we had $125 billion to spend on our secular infrastructure

if our military wasn't so gargantuan we could