WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Dubai Ports World has agreed to postpone its plans
to take over management of six U.S. ports after the proposal ignited
harsh bipartisan criticism on Capitol Hill.
" 'We need to understand the concerns of the people in the U.S. who
are worried about this transaction and make sure they are addressed to
the benefit of all parties,' said Ted Bilkey, the company's chief
operating officer, in a statement released Thursday night . . ."
" . . .Also Thursday, Bush reiterated that the deal poses no security
risk . . ." http://tinyurl.com/rsryd
In further consideration of the DWP and the Shiek who owns it, the UAE
demographically is not only predominantly Shiite moslem, but an
international sole and proprietorship whose patrons are those with WMD
and possessing fanatical if not fundamentalist approach to diplomacy,
or lack thereof.
And with a service which primarily involves shipping and transport,
presumably it does not distinguish any side by virtue of geopolitical
ideology (eg. War on Terror, Jihad, Infatada, Hamas etc.) but the
financial benefit which it can harvest. The country, for all intents
and purposes is a privately owned company, headed by one person whose
customers are on opposite sides of this conflict in the Middle East,
and such liasons with it are dubious to say the least.
Let's go to the way-back machine . . . Wasn't Iraq under Hussein and
when Rumsfeld shook hands in a deal during the 80's eerily similar in
terms of a cozy diplomatic/business relationship? And what about the
predecessor to the current Shiek? BCCI anyone?
It's just business as usual, with Bush assuring America everything is
going to be A-okay. Yeah, right.
"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."
--- George W. Bush, Good Morning America, September. 1, 2005
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