http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/permalink/the_palace_of_sheikh_zayed_bin_sultan_al_nahyan/

woow...it's dumb to ask where the hotel is, for it's not...

here are the pictures of a HOUSE, yes a house owned by a family of Shiek Zayed Binh Sultan Al Nahyan.


ZAyed's profile:
---the principal architect of United Arab Emirates (UAE),
-- the ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the UAE for over 30 years (1971-2004).
---the youngest son of Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the traditional ruler of Abu Dhabi from 1922 to 1926. (theirs was a dynasty...)

A Forbes magazine estimate put his fortune at around USD $24 billion making Zayed one of the wealthiest person in the world. According to a Wikipedia report, "his source of wealth could be almost exclusively attributed to the immense oil wealth of Abu Dhabi and the Emirates, which sit on a pool of a tenth of the world's proven oil reserves" (as of this year).

Nevertheless he chose to live a relatively modest and traditional lifestyle, riding and hunting with falcons, though he gave up hunting with firearms, a sport at which he excelled, to set an example for wildlife conservation in his fragile desert homeland (Wikipedia).

son of a...its disturbing that while some are spending their nights on the streets, these people live in a palace like this... er, spending gas for...
the silver car uses a gas worth $ 2.75 US/gallon.. wowh.. just imagine things it can buy... haay..

here's the original article:

The Palace of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Status: Email hoax (real pictures, fake caption)
Bad: Falling for an email hoax. Worse: Using the hoax as the basis for your presentation to the local city planning commission, thereby displaying your gullibility to the entire public.

As reported by the Muncie Star Press (no link), Don Love gets the award for doing the latter. He received an email containing a series of pictures of an opulent estate (shown below), with the caption:

In case you're wondering where this hotel is, it isn't a hotel at all. IT IS A HOUSE! It's owned by the family of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the former president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu-Dhabi.

Enraged, he made a slide presentation out of the pictures and showed them to the planning commission, as part of his effort to get them to approve construction of an ethanol plant. His point was that they should promote local energy projects, to prevent all the city's money going to greedy, oil-rich sheiks. He told them: "This is the type of thing being done with your petro dollars that I want to re-patriate. Keep in mind the gentleman has more than 20 wives. This is one of 70 baths. Some are bigger than my house. This is his little swimming pool. These are his cars."

Of course, the pictures don't show a sheik's palace. In reality they show a fancy hotel in Abu Dhabi called the Emirates Palace. All the stuff about 20 wives is bogus too. If Love had bothered to do any research, he would have found this out. He probably could also have found some real pictures of a sheik's palace, which would have been a more effective way of making his point. Incidentally, my other house (the one in my daydreams) looks just like the one in the pictures.


JOKE time!!! haha...
(but the shiek's profile is ryt... )
bogus...