[demlosers]

So an UAE shipbuilding company has worked on our US Navy ships. If the US military trusts the UAE having access to our war ships, then why not our port terminals?

This is an old press release but it's news that's relevant today.

[demlosers]

Info Ping.

[Darkwolf377]

I guess we trust them with the lives of our military but not with the rest of us.

[Gondring]

ping

[Echo Talon]

ABU DHABI AHHHH that sounds like a arab name! Im against this WTF are we doing! /sarcasm

[MJY1288]

In a few minutes the usual suspects will be here to dowse you in lighter fluid and set you a blaze :-)

[sully777]

If I'm reading this correctly, the contractor is a company, not the UAE government. And the contractor has no control over global shipping manifests. Etc. etc. etc. (See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1583769/posts?q=1&&page=1#1)

[Hank Rearden]

Time to reinspect those welds and look for hidden explosives.

[danamco]

So an UAE shipbuilding company has worked on our US Navy ships. If the US military trusts the UAE having access to our war ships, then why not our port terminals?

This is an old press release but it's news that's relevant today.



Who are running many of the U.S. Navy supply vessels???

[grizzly84]

9 years old, that would be during Clinton.

[Daaave]

USNS Gordon

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• Length: 954 feet
• Beam: 105 feet, 8 inches
• Draft: 35 feet, 9 inches
• Displacement: 65,000 long tons
• Speed: 24.0 knots
• Organization: Surge
• Civilian: 30
• Military: 0

[Bon mots]

The Gordon repair project involved completion of warranty work for the U.S. Military Sealift Command vessel during its recent visit to the Arabian Gulf.

So what is it now... do we still call it the Persian Gulf, or are we now to call it the Arabian Gulf?

The Arabs have always called it the Arabian Gulf - it's kind of like one of those "Falkland Islands - Malvinas" conundrums. You have to choose sides!

[Bon mots]

What a great idea!

Let the Muslim Jihadis work on our ships.
They can put locaters in so that homing missiles/bombs/torpedoes can track them.

They could see that some parts use substandard materials, etc.

They can possibly booby-trap it!

Great move.

[bd476]

From Northrup Grumman a June 24, 1997
Press Release in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.

More shock. /sarcasm

[cva66snipe]

OK now then. Anyone care to explain how the COLE bombers knew exactly where to hit the ship? One of the best Naval Training Schools to learn the general construction and workings of a Navy ship is in a Naval Shipyard. Some one messed up big time putting that yard there.

I suppose this is now all A OK because well after all gee wiz I mean Clinton done it too? If Clinton set the yard deal up or allowed it that is more than enough reason to question the policy IMO. On many Navy ships all decks below the main deck are classified. But the article doesn't mention that little detail. The biggest question I have is why are we still using it? What was bad policy under Clinton is still bad policy under Bush. Bad policy is bad policy.

[Squint]

Having spent time onboard a ship having work done in the Dubai shipyards I can attest to the fact that the overwhelming majority of the workers are Filipino, Indian, and Pakistani and they do excellent work. The U.S. Navy has used Dubai, and now Abu Dhabi, shipyards for ship repairs since at least the 1980s with few problems.

[TPartyType]

Under the current state of unease, the only failsafe means of guaranteeing homeland security is to build holding facilities in remote locations in Alaska, New Mexico, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, North Dakota, and West Texas. All persons of Arab decent, along with any person with known ties to any Arab, should be held until such time that the Islamofascists no longer pose a threat. If we don't, they're going to get us. (/bigotry)

[LZ_Bayonet]

I traveled to Vietnam on what must have been the original USNS Gordon. And now it's replacement has undergone a rebuild? -oh oh, another one of those "age markers".

[Fruitbat]

So an UAE shipbuilding company has worked on our US Navy ships. If the US military trusts the UAE having access to our war ships, then why not our port terminals?

This is an old press release but it's news that's relevant today.

Don't take this the wrong way, but that's ridiculous. What one does on a ship can be inspected and is easily visible and overseen.

Running an entire port I'm sure enables one running things to "slide a few things through the 'loop holes'" as it were.

Your point is made, but there's a world of difference here.

Why is it that those in favor of this thing, and this doesn't necessarily pertain to you, have already made up their mind on it and appear to be averse to learning more about it? That's what libs do. Conservatives are supposed to think through things, expose the facts, educate people, and then make a reasoned out and well informed decision. It seems as if the opposite is happening with conservatives in this.

I'm sayin' it now, this has the potential to come back and bite us to the extent that it will override everything else about W's legacy. It may not, but if it were to, then lookout!

[RightWhale]

It appears that everybody owns a piece of everybody. Maybe that is the key to stability.

[meandog]

"Now that the U.S. Navy has worked with us and seen what our local NNS personnel are able to do, I’m hopeful that ADSB will be able to provide repair and maintenance services for other U.S. Navy ships deployed in the region."

I understand USS Cole is due for upkeep...