Dubai is the fastest growing city in the world. It was all desert five years ago, but now it is a very large city. The prime minister of Dubai, Sheikh Al Maktoum, stated that he wanted everything in his country to be the biggest and the best.
In Dubai, there is the biggest indoor skiing arena in the world. Also there is the only 7 star hotel in the world. They also have the only underwater hotel in the world.The whole hotel is submerged under water, and your rooms look out into the ocean.
Dubai has the main port where the US navy keeps its aircraft carriers, so that they can launch their bombers to support the troops in Iraq. The ships are crucial for the war in Iraq. The United Arab Emirates is also allied to Iran, so if the US goes to war with Iran, then The United Arab Emirates would be stuck in a horrible situation (I highly doubt that a US Iran war would ever occur).
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml
http://search.cnn.com/search.jsp?query=dubai&type=web&sortBy=date&intl=false
