The Museum of Islamic Art was opened on Saturday night here in Doha. The video below got a slightly better look at what was going on than us…only slightly mind. This was a significant event with over a thousand dignitaries there for the opening. I have never seen so many black series 7 BMWs. (apparently there were over 250 of them) as well as a huge assortment of limos, jags .mercs. Now we wandered down as we thought there would be a fireworks display and also that there would be large crowds watching from outside the fence, you know to witness the opening. There was nobody there so we wandered up to the ISF (internal security force guys) asked if we could cross over in front..marfi miskala and sat right up by the fence so that we could see the big screen inside televising the opening ceremony (as seen on the you tube video below). So technically we were only 250 metres away all the major leaders of Islamic countries,( plus Robert De Niro) and no one asked us what we were doing , looked at us. So we watched the opening ceremony, then the 8 minute fireworks display ( I have it on video all 168 megabytes of it so will edit and compress and hopefully upload it) and then wandered back out to the car. We had to run the gauntlet of ISF which was now a significant force given that all the leaders were now contained inside the museum grounds. They didn’t smile at us as we walked past. There was a small crowd watching but they had obviously been too scared to go through the security guys.
Monday, November 24, 2008
The Opening Story
The Museum of Islamic Art was opened on Saturday night here in Doha. The video below got a slightly better look at what was going on than us…only slightly mind. This was a significant event with over a thousand dignitaries there for the opening. I have never seen so many black series 7 BMWs. (apparently there were over 250 of them) as well as a huge assortment of limos, jags .mercs. Now we wandered down as we thought there would be a fireworks display and also that there would be large crowds watching from outside the fence, you know to witness the opening. There was nobody there so we wandered up to the ISF (internal security force guys) asked if we could cross over in front..marfi miskala and sat right up by the fence so that we could see the big screen inside televising the opening ceremony (as seen on the you tube video below). So technically we were only 250 metres away all the major leaders of Islamic countries,( plus Robert De Niro) and no one asked us what we were doing , looked at us. So we watched the opening ceremony, then the 8 minute fireworks display ( I have it on video all 168 megabytes of it so will edit and compress and hopefully upload it) and then wandered back out to the car. We had to run the gauntlet of ISF which was now a significant force given that all the leaders were now contained inside the museum grounds. They didn’t smile at us as we walked past. There was a small crowd watching but they had obviously been too scared to go through the security guys.
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