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Qatari emir buys six Greek islands for a song
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Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani pays €8.5m on Ionian retreats for family with seller happy to strike deal after 18 months of red tape
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/04/qatar-emir-buys-six-greek-islands
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Al Mirqab (yacht) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Al Mirqab is one of the largest yachts ever built. The yacht belongs to Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister - Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani. The yacht was built at Peters Schiffbau ...
from the comments: "He got for peanuts - the yacht he saw them from would have cost him more than ten times what he paid for all the islands."