Posted on 02/11/2006 9:11:33 AM PST by STARWISE
A company in the United Arab Emirates is poised to take over significant operations at six American ports as part of a corporate sale, leaving a country with ties to the Sept. 11 hijackers with influence over a maritime industry considered vulnerable to terrorism.
The Bush administration considers the UAE an important ally in the fight against terrorism since the suicide hijackings and is not objecting to Dubai Ports World's purchase of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co.
The $6.8 billion sale is expected to be approved Monday. The British company is the fourth largest ports company in the world and its sale would affect commercial U.S. port operations in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.
DP World said it won approval from a secretive U.S. government panel that considers security risks of foreign companies buying or investing in American industry.
(Excerpt) Read more at biz.yahoo.com ...
What in the world is going on. This is totally STUPID.
Then, it must be shown to us or the American people for it to sink in. Then maybe, we'll have a "Grass Roots Uprising" to save our Country before the "Cancer" takes over.
Sorry it's not well written, but that is how I feel is happenning to our Country.
I firmly believe all of this cumulative.
Something must start lighting a fire under our toes or it'll be the end of America as we knew it.
I understand.
Perhaps you need to read this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/518988/posts
Well, this won't last long...just long enough to blow up New York, Phillie or Miami.
Titled "First it was Rhodesia then SA now America paying the price of silence."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/518988/posts
Thank you B4Ranch !!!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/518988/posts
Somebody just sent that to me in Freepmail. I'm still trying to digest it.
BTW, if you leave off ALL formatting when you post, those links become live; just type it like you would in MS Word!
I do not know what's up. Let's keep a close eye on it.
A smart free market way to pay for the trade deficit - selling all the assets.
Check this out!
bump
It'll have to be someone with far more insight than I, as I find this whole thing disgusting.
Bump for tomorrow's reading.
Good thing we aren't bringing in any tankers of oil or LNG from Arab countries into our ports then, eh?
"They are a SHIPPING Company. They have NOTHING to do with port security."
In Philadelphia at least, P&O Nedlloyd is a 50% partner in Delaware River Stevedores, who perform the actual port operations for the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority. I assume the situation is similar elsewhere.
http://portal.pohub.com/portal/page?_pageid=169,112151&_dad=pogprtl&_schema=POGPRTL
So its a bit different from UPS, since UPS doesn't run Airport Terminals.
How do you know? Did you hear that on Rush? What do you know about the details of this deal and what this company from UAE has will have access to? Why should we believe, hearing it from you, that this has nothing to do with security let alone selling our country out to foreigners once again?
I guess that takes care of the three branches of the government. Career bureaucrats should probably be included.
Stephen E. Flynn, who studies maritime security at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations "It's not impossible to imagine one could develop an internal conspiracy, but I'd have to assign it a very low probability."
Would he assign a low probability to the WTC being hit by airliners?
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