Posted on 02/21/2006 12:32:20 PM PST by Brian Mosely
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Bush says the deal allowing an Arab company to take over six major U.S. seaports should go forward and he will veto any bill that would stop it.
Frank Gaffney just on Savage:
"Problems exist already with the ports, we don't need to add to them.
"This will allow them to put in personnel and cargo, and to be read in on security."
UAE could be a staging area for airstrikes and special forces operations against Iran.
Frist?
they are quite useful. tahnks for bringin out the big guns
Really. Papa and Slick are good friends now.
Talk about delusional. Miers was a bad pick and not some brilliant strategy.
No matter what happens, there is always a group that wants to blame America.
Good judgment, jmo.
This does it for me!:
Iran, UAE explore expansion of trade relations
Tehran, Feb 2, IRNA
Iran-UAE-Trade
Iran and UAE explored here Wednesday ways of expanding bilateral trade relations.
Iranian Commercial attache in UAE Qassem Mirzaie told IRNA that the meeting focused on expansion of trade ties between Iran's Mazandaran province and Dubai.
The meeting was attended by over 50 private and public officials of the Mazandaran province who discussed removing hurdles in expansion of investments and trade relations.
Mirzaie who is also the head of Iran Trade Center in Dubai said that the UAE official stressed that the Iran-UAE trade exchange which stood at dlrs 3.3 billion in 2005, should be increased through holding trade exhibitions.
Many companies from Mazandaran active in various areas including automobile parts manufacturing, carpets, tourism, plant and flower participated in an exclusive exhibition which opened Monday and completed work Wednesday.
Textiles, transportation-related equipment, electronic gadgets, fake jewelry, and precious stones are some of reexports by Dubai, he added.
He said the Iranian businessmen in the UAE should strive to correct the trade imbalance between the two Persian Gulf nations.
Mirzaie said that the figures indicate that the bilateral trade stood at close to dlrs eight billion in 2004.
The volume of UAE's imports from Iran does not correspond to our industrial and trade capabilities and potentials. "The Iranian industrialists and traders should put more efforts to turn the trade figures around," he underlined.
He also urged the Iranian entrepreneurs to channel their investments into Iran. He further called for cooperation of Iranian businessmen to confront goods smuggling to Iran.
Dubai reexports to Iran, which have ranked first in reexports from the emirate in the past 10 years, dropped in the 2004, the Dubai Customs Internet Site reported here last month.
"Iran's reexports from Dubai totaled 10.348 billion Dirhams and ranked second after India last year," it said.
In 2004, Dubai had over 80 percent of total non-oil foreign trade of United Arab Emirates.
According to unofficial reports, the values of Iran's imports from Dubai were more than dlrs 4 billion in 2002.
Iran opened its trade center in UAE in June with the presence of Iranian and UAE trade ministers. Several UAE and Iranian officials were also present at the centers' opening ceremonies.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-18/0602025066004651.htm
Thanks, Savage comes on at 8:00 where I am.
wow you are amazing!!!!!
"I cant believe Im saying this but one has to wonder why are we fighting this war when we are allowing terrorists to walk across our border and control our ports?"
I agree about the border, but Dubai is NOT Saudi....and NOT a terrorist gov't! All Arabs are not our enemies unless we make them into enemies....
I was strongly opposed to the Miers nomination. I am not inclined to be opposed to this proposal until I hear some reason to oppose it other than the fact that Dubai is involved.
Dubai is not a terrorist state nor is it sympathetic to terrorists.
Sure thing ace. And Pakistan is our "ally" who helps up "fight terrorism" too. Meanwhile, they are giving safe harbor to bin Laden and other al Quaeda leaders, burning down Western businesses and killing Christians.
Then there are our other islamic "allies" like Saudi Arabia and Turkey, who refused to lend us air bases from which to launch war against Iraq. All three of these islamic "allies" are presently rebelling in their streets, burning Western business establishments and embassies, and railing against America and the West with death threats.
You can add Jordan to that list of islamic "allies" who are protesting against the West and rioting.
UAE was suspected by the U.S. government of having ties to al Queada.
The UAE is pro-Palesinian, anti-Isreal.
The UAE officially supports the Taliban, whom we are at war against.
The UAE still has unresolved ties (funding) to the Iraqi insurgency
The UAE was the official operations center of the 9/11 terrorists. It is where they obtained their fake passports and laundered money.
A list of financial companies named by the Bush administration as financiers of Al-Qaeda, reveals involvement of prominent Arab individuals from several countries in the Middle East. One example of such company is the Al Taqwa bank. Among the bank's shareholders are members of the prominent Khalifeh family of the UAE, the UAE's grand mufti and his family members, members of the Kuwaiti royal family, members of the Bin Laden family, a prominent leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood group and several members of Hamas.
The Italian anti-terrorist agency claimed that Al Taqwa handled financing for a number of Arab and Islamic political and militant groups, including groups such as Hamas, the PLO, the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA) and the Egyptian Gama'a al-Islamiya, as well as former Afghan mujahedin in bin Laden's camps.
So take the facts and please use them to enlighten yourself a little bit, maybe you'll rid yourself of the penquin symdrome and stop following others off the cliff.
"nor is it sympathetic to terrorists."
see #1052
I guess the only thing more stunning than the obvious ignorance being displayed on this thread, is that you and some others really think I give a rat's ass what you think, or whether or not you agree or disagree with me. You really do, and I find that fascinating.
Remember the Bush's and Clinton's are related to the Brit Royal Family, and thus to EACH OTHER! Of course I'm related too, they got around!
That is exactly what I meant to say.
I believe in the American People ,some are complacement,some not ...civil uprising,,won't happen...Taking our Country back,,Live Free or Die,sort of thing will.
I don't believe we are in any different position than the Jews were when they started rounding them up.
Would you shoot your local cop if guns were banned and they came to collect them? I mean really--would you if you had no one to back you up?
How would you propose to take back the Country? Actually, how would you, as an ordinary citizen, propose getting into your Senator's office if you didn't have an appointment in advance? I am of the understanding that Militia's are thought to be rouge groups and watched by our government.
Wow. 24K views and 1300 posts (I just checked "Breaking News" stats). What does your ping list look like? LOL.
how do you find out how many hits a thread gets?
Excellently written. This sums it up very well.
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