Bush sells U.S. ports to arabs?
February 21, 2006 7:59 PM Subscribe
Isn't this something to be concerned about?
This post was deleted for the following reason: same subject posted earlier
It's a double, from about a week ago, but I don't remember the exact other post.
posted by mystyk at 8:01 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by mystyk at 8:01 PM on February 21, 2006
Didn't you read about this on my blog?
posted by Sellersburg/Speed at 8:03 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by Sellersburg/Speed at 8:03 PM on February 21, 2006
I would only be worried if the ports were sold to capital-a Arabs.
posted by Astro Zombie at 8:09 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by Astro Zombie at 8:09 PM on February 21, 2006
Yup. Read this and see just one reason why: USA Today, 9/94--Bin Laden's operatives still using freewheeling Dubai--Osama bin Laden's operatives still use this freewheeling city as a logistical hub three years after more than half the Sept. 11 hijackers flew directly from Dubai to the United States in the final preparatory stages for the attack....
posted by amberglow at 8:11 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by amberglow at 8:11 PM on February 21, 2006
It has already been posted (to a hail of racist recriminations).
posted by Falconetti at 8:12 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by Falconetti at 8:12 PM on February 21, 2006
Oh crap, Arabs now own the US ports. This should be on the news.
posted by Wallzatcha at 8:17 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by Wallzatcha at 8:17 PM on February 21, 2006
and this: Doing Business With The Enemy ---... From Egypt to Afghanistan, when terrorists and gangsters need a place to meet, to relax, maybe to invest, they head to Dubai, a bustling city-state on the Persian Gulf. The Middle East's unquestioned financial capital, Dubai is the showcase of the United Arab Emirates, an oil-rich federation of sheikdoms. Forty years ago, Dubai was a backwater; today, it hosts dozens of banks and one of the world's busiest ports; its free-trade zones are crammed with thousands of companies. Construction is everywhere--skyscrapers, malls, hotels, and, soon, the world's tallest building.
But Dubai also serves as the region's criminal crossroads, a hub for smuggling, money laundering, and underground banking. There are Russian and Indian mobsters, Iranian arms traffickers, and Arab jihadists. Funds for the 9/11 hijackers and African embassy bombers were transferred through the city. It was the heart of Pakistani scientist A. Q. Khan's black market in nuclear technology and other proliferation cases. Half of all applications to buy U.S. military equipment from Dubai are from bogus front companies, officials say. "Iran," adds one U.S. official, "is building a bomb through Dubai." Last year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents thwarted the shipment of 3,000 U.S. military night-vision goggles by an Iranian pair based in Dubai. Moving goods undetected is not hard. Dhows--rickety wooden boats that have plowed the Arabian Sea for centuries--move along the city center, uninspected, down the aptly named Smuggler's Creek.
U.A.E. rulers have taken terrorism seriously since 9/11, but Washington has a half-dozen extradition requests that they refuse to honor. The list includes people accused of rape, murder, and arms trafficking, and the last fugitive of the BCCI banking scandal. ...
posted by amberglow at 8:17 PM on February 21, 2006
But Dubai also serves as the region's criminal crossroads, a hub for smuggling, money laundering, and underground banking. There are Russian and Indian mobsters, Iranian arms traffickers, and Arab jihadists. Funds for the 9/11 hijackers and African embassy bombers were transferred through the city. It was the heart of Pakistani scientist A. Q. Khan's black market in nuclear technology and other proliferation cases. Half of all applications to buy U.S. military equipment from Dubai are from bogus front companies, officials say. "Iran," adds one U.S. official, "is building a bomb through Dubai." Last year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents thwarted the shipment of 3,000 U.S. military night-vision goggles by an Iranian pair based in Dubai. Moving goods undetected is not hard. Dhows--rickety wooden boats that have plowed the Arabian Sea for centuries--move along the city center, uninspected, down the aptly named Smuggler's Creek.
U.A.E. rulers have taken terrorism seriously since 9/11, but Washington has a half-dozen extradition requests that they refuse to honor. The list includes people accused of rape, murder, and arms trafficking, and the last fugitive of the BCCI banking scandal. ...
posted by amberglow at 8:17 PM on February 21, 2006
Top story on the NYT: Bush Would Veto Any Bill to Halt Dubai Port Deal
posted by muckster at 8:18 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by muckster at 8:18 PM on February 21, 2006
Yeah, what's up with the title of this post? It comes off as pretty inflammatory. The U.S. gets along just fine with most of the Arab world.
posted by dsword at 8:19 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by dsword at 8:19 PM on February 21, 2006
I just spent the last hour slowing going through the current posts, not to mention searching the obvious key words: UAE, ports ... and I could not find the post. It's certainly something that's concerning to Jack Cafferty and I hope we revisit the debate, even if it has already gotten pretty neatly buried by latest cool video of a kid breakdancing on a high-school stage.
How about this: The president is suggesting that he'll break out his never-before-used shiny Power of the Veto. It's a presidential first! He cares!
posted by filament at 8:19 PM on February 21, 2006
How about this: The president is suggesting that he'll break out his never-before-used shiny Power of the Veto. It's a presidential first! He cares!
posted by filament at 8:19 PM on February 21, 2006
I just don't see why we're outsourcing something like port operations to any foreign outfit.
posted by scaryblackdeath at 8:19 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by scaryblackdeath at 8:19 PM on February 21, 2006
Note AQ Khan's name--he's the Pakistani who sold nuclear tech to everyone. Since we only inspect 4% of the cargo entering the country, how much easier is Bush trying to make it for us to be attacked again?
posted by amberglow at 8:19 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by amberglow at 8:19 PM on February 21, 2006
Halliburton even has an office there--if Cheney's involved, you know it's no good.
posted by amberglow at 8:23 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by amberglow at 8:23 PM on February 21, 2006
Good commentary here. I would have posted more supportive links, (and yea, this SHOULD be in the news) but all I could come up with were links from rense.com and infowars.com, which I felt the post could do better without. Why is it NOT in the news?
posted by snsranch at 8:28 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by snsranch at 8:28 PM on February 21, 2006
This is as much a rubbish post as the last one.
So some capitalists want to buy some infrastructure. Big whoopie. Should American companies not be allowed to invest in the rest of the world because of Timothy McVeigh or cuntless other examples?
posted by wilful at 8:29 PM on February 21, 2006
So some capitalists want to buy some infrastructure. Big whoopie. Should American companies not be allowed to invest in the rest of the world because of Timothy McVeigh or cuntless other examples?
posted by wilful at 8:29 PM on February 21, 2006
I ♥ xenophobia.
posted by cillit bang at 8:31 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by cillit bang at 8:31 PM on February 21, 2006
Erm, that was a bit of a malapropism. Countless other examples or terrorists, either home grown acting on their own, or aided and abetted by Uncle Sam.
posted by wilful at 8:31 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by wilful at 8:31 PM on February 21, 2006
This is most definitely in the news. It was headlining CNN earlier today and yesterday, and was the lead feature story on the Lehrer Newshour tonight. It's even headling news on BBC's International site.
posted by justkevin at 8:32 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by justkevin at 8:32 PM on February 21, 2006
Yeah - we should all be concerned about double posts. Else they become triples, quadruples and before long all FPPs are about Bush selling the US ports to the Arabs.
posted by nkyad at 8:32 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by nkyad at 8:32 PM on February 21, 2006
So when the next terrorist attack comes to the US through one of these ports, can we charge this administration with... well, can we at least impeach... do you think we'll get an apology?
posted by Balisong at 8:33 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by Balisong at 8:33 PM on February 21, 2006
Balisong : "So when the next terrorist attack comes to the US through one of these ports, can we charge this administration with... well, can we at least impeach... do you think we'll get an apology?"
No to all, but you can invade the United Arab Emirates. I mean, you can send a dozen marines from Iraq on vacation there and declare it invaded, mission accomplished and all.
posted by nkyad at 8:36 PM on February 21, 2006
No to all, but you can invade the United Arab Emirates. I mean, you can send a dozen marines from Iraq on vacation there and declare it invaded, mission accomplished and all.
posted by nkyad at 8:36 PM on February 21, 2006
I think it's common knowledge that Saudi Arabia, Syria, the UAE et cetera, had more to do with 9/11 that Saddam and Iraq. Is it just me that feels slapped in the face when GWB decides to outsource control of our borders to those who commited to destroying the U.S.?
posted by snsranch at 8:37 PM on February 21, 2006
posted by snsranch at 8:37 PM on February 21, 2006
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