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Edited on Tue Feb-21-06 06:57 AM by Nothing Without Hope
I had two errors in that compilation thread, in comments I made in two of the entries. This is about the 40% of US Army cargo coming through UAE-controlled hands. It isn't the two PORTS passing this cargo that they would own, it is the STEVEDORING contracts. Still a security risk. It's reported in the thread below titled "UAE ports would get advanced warning on military shipments:"I've corrected those errors in this version of my unofficial Dubai ports compilation thread, which will continue to be updated: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2454971thread title (2-12-06 GD-P): 911 Bankers to Run SIX Major U.S. Ports—Dubai(UAE). IMPEACH NOW!!! Comment/excerpt: “Six ports will be run and protected by a Dubai based port management company (DP World): New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia. The deal was approved by a “U.S. government panel coordinated out of the White House. Just prior to the deal, David C. Sanborn of Virginia was appointed as administrator of the Maritime Administration of the Transportation Department. Sanborn worked as DP World's director of operations for Europe and Latin America.…. 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.“ Also gives info on Dubai’s links to suspected terrorist financing and money laundering. Even the freepers are upset about this outrage: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x446111thread title (2-16-06 GD): Freepers JUST AS MAD About the Port Control Issue... Common Ground? Comment/excerpt: Free Republic posts expressing concern/outrage over Dubai operating 6 major US ports. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x446003thread title (2-16-06 GD): OK!!! I think the Pres. just cut his own throat!! http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2113537thread title (2-16-06 LBN): White House Defends Port Operations Sale Comment/excerpt: Yahoo News/AP. “The Bush administration on Thursday rebuffed criticism about potential security risks of a $6.8 billion sale that gives a company in the United Arab Emirates control over significant operations at six major American ports. Lawmakers asked the White House to reconsider the deal. The sale to state-owned Dubai Ports World was ‘rigorously reviewed’ by a U.S. committee that considers security threats when foreign companies seek to buy or invest in American industry, National Security Council spokesman Frederick Jones said….” http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x453502thread title (2-17-06 GD): Freeper and neocon websites unable to put a spin on the UAE port takeover Comment/excerpt: COMPILATION post with many links and good explanation, for example of the role played by GOLD in the money trail to al Qaeda. Also that the United Arab Emirates were one of the THREE COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD THAT RECOGNIZED THE TALIBAN AS THE LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT OF AFGHANISTAN. Much more on the obvious security disaster this deal would be and why. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x452192thread title (2-17-06 GD): Excellent! "Democrats plan bill to block Dubai-US port deal" Comment/excerpt: Reuters: “Two U.S. Democratic senators said on Friday they would introduce legislation aimed at blocking Dubai Ports World from buying a company that operates several U.S. shipping ports because of security concerns. Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Hillary Clinton of New York said they would offer a measure to ban companies owned or controlled by foreign governments from acquiring U.S. port operations.” Hillary is calculating that the GOPs and Dems will like this position and it will boost her presidential chances, but I wouldn’t care WHO was calling for sanity in this. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2115471thread title (2-17-06 LBN): US Democrats plan bill to block Dubai-US port deal Comment/excerpt: Cites same Reuters article as the preceding thread in GD. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x460075thread title (2-18-06 GD): Please tell me why every other thread is not about the sale of the ports? http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x461270#462457thread title (2-18-06 GD): In light of the sale of 6 US ports to the United Arab Emirates, PNAC VIDEO Comment/excerpt: Links to two Dutch VIDEOS, one 20 min and one 48 min. They are in English about the PNAC, the Carlyle group, and the greedy corporate network ruling the world today.. Reply #8 has a summary. Excerpt: “No civilised country would tolerate the close relationship Carlyle and, by practical extension, United States' president George W. Bush, enjoy with the Saudi royal family and its cohorts in terror, repression and murder. The behaviour of those setting the agenda of our global future is unconscionable at best and downright evil when taken at face value. The documentary is thoroughly researched, well presented, and carries no trace of the conspiratorial. The facts speak for themselves. Sowing death, destruction and terror about the globe, George W. Bush and his power-crazed sidekicks, supporters and collaborators are everything they pretend others to be; namely, global terrorists bent on furthering selfish interests.” http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2118357thread title (2-18-06 LBN): Firm Sues to Block Foreign Port Takeover Comment/excerpt: AP at Yahoo News and CBS – link in Reply #1. Excerpt: …“The Miami company, a subsidiary of Eller & Company Inc., presently is a business partner with London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which Dubai Ports World purchased last week. In a lawsuit in Florida circuit court, the Miami subsidiary said that under the sale it will become an "involuntary partner" with Dubai's government and it may seek more than $10 million in damages. The Miami subsidiary, Continental Stevedoring & Terminals Inc., said the sale to Dubai was prohibited under its partnership agreement with the British firm and "may endanger the national security of the United States." It asked a judge to block the takeover and said it does not believe the company, Florida or the U.S. government can ensure Dubai Ports World's compliance with American security rules.” … Reply #4 Cites and excerpts an important article on the Dubai sale in the Feb 12 Washington Post that describes the secretive process by which a government panel raised no objection to the sale: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/11/AR2006021101112.html http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2118356thread title (2-18-06 LBN): Bill would stop sale of port operations to Arabs Comment/excerpt: An editorial from Buffalo. Excerpt: “Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Robert Menendez of New Jersey have introduced legislation to prohibit companies owned or controlled by foreign governments from buying U.S. port operations. The measure is intended to block the $6.8 billion sale of a company that operates six U.S. ports to a firm controlled by the United Arab Emirates.“ http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2118060thread title (2-18-06 LBN): Fear Escalates on Foreign Control of Ports Comment/excerpt: Washington Post, same title. Excerpt: “WASHINGTON -- A New Jersey congressman said Saturday he wants to require that security officials at U.S. ports be American citizens to prevent overseas companies operating shipping facilities here from hiring foreigners in such sensitive positions. Republican Frank A. LoBiondo, chairman of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee, cited "significant" security concerns over a $6.8 billion sale that gives a company in the United Arab Emirates control over operations at six major American ports. LoBiondo said he wants the new mandatory citizenship requirements approved by Congress and President Bush before state-owned Dubai Ports World completes its pending purchase of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. … Caught by surprise over the breadth of concerns expressed in the United States, Dubai Ports World is cautiously organizing its response. The company quietly dispatched advisers to reassure port officials along the East Coast, and its chief operating officer _ internationally respected American shipping executive Edward "Ted" H. Bilkey _ was expected to travel to Washington soon for meetings on Capitol Hill and elsewhere. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x463914thread title (2-19-06 GD): Arab Takeover of US Ports Seen as Security 'Insanity' Comment/excerpt: Worldnetdaily link. Excerpt: UAE has known ties to terrorists and 9/11 hijackers, raising concerns at the ports involved: New York, Baltimore, New Jersey, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia. … "On the face of it, this looks like fucking insanity to me", said a Republican member of the New York City council, James Oddo. "This shouldn't happen. It really boggles the mind", Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the American Center for Democracy said. "The UAE is a hub for all kinds of terrorist activities." "Should we be outsourcing our own security?"...Senator Chuck Schumer said on Fox News. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x471124thread title (2-20-06 GD): Our Ports are a Tradeoff!! All about $$$ and Oil Comment/excerpt: Documents General Electric’s financial interest in Middle East access and much more. Supports the poster’s comment, “If it isn't apparent what's going on here, it should be. Our government and corporations have traded our ports for better access to the ME. Iraq was a lie (we know this) and I believe the "war on terror" is garbage as is the drum-beating over Iran. PNAC's plan is being followed to the letter and it's all about money and controlling the world's oil supply.” http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2471320thread title (2-20-06 GD-P): the connection to it all - Carlyle Group involved in port security deal Comment/excerpt: “MM&P-contracted CSX Lines, the US-flag container shipping subsidiary of CSX Inc., will be sold to the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm based in Washington, DC for $300M. The acquisition will give Carlyle control over the nation's largest Jones Act container fleet and will add to the company's growing transportation portfolio. CSX Lines will be renamed Horizon Lines LLC, when the transaction is completed early next year pending regulatory approval. CSX Lines is the nation's largest ocean transport company, with 17 US-flag vessels and 22,000 containers, providing ocean transportation and logistics services to and from the US, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Carlyle's other maritime holdings include Seabulk International, formerly Hvide Marine, which owns and operates 10 Jones Act tankers in the Gulf of Mexico. Through United Defense Industries, Carlyle controls United States Marine Repair, the nation's largest non-nuclear ship repair and conversion company… John Snow, the CEO of CSX, was appointed Treasury Secretary by the younger President Bush last week. …and more – they want to get into NUCLEAR SUBMARINES TOO… http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x473813thread title (2-20-06 GD): Carlyly Group's involvement in port security company Comment/excerpt: Same main article as the GD-P thread about sale of CSX lines to Carlyle, appointment of former CSX CEO as Sec of Treasury. Reply 24: DUBAI PORT WORLD – THE ONES BUYING THE AMERICAN PORTS – OWN CSX!!! CSX also owns biggest rail in the east, plus trucking.(Reply #30) But Reply #34 says DPW bought the terminal business from CSX for cash and does NOT own CSX, only a business CSX once owned. Much needs to be clarified, but there are lots of dots there to connect, and it all comes back to sellout by the Bushies for money and to please their MidEast patrons. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x476901thread title (2-20-06 GD): UAE ports would get advanced warning on military shipments: Comment/excerpt: Excerpt from ThinkProgress article: “The company, Dubai Ports World, would also control the movement of military equipment on behalf of the U.S. Army through two other ports. From today’s edition of the British paper Lloyd’s List: has just renewed a contract with the United States Surface Deployment and Distribution Command to provide stevedoring of military equipment at the Texan ports of Beaumont and Corpus Christi through 2010. According to the journal Army Logistician ‘Almost 40 percent of the Army cargo deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom flows through these two ports.’ “ http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x472697thread title (2-20-06 GD): Port Security - Kerry warned us! Comment/excerpt: COMPILATION POST on Kerry statements about extremely lax security in US ports and their vulnerability to terrorists. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x475764thread title (2-20-06 GD): Behold The Golden Calf (port sale) Comment/excerpt: The Plaid Adder’s take on the sale of control of six US ports to Dubai. Excerpt: “…Since 2000 it has become obvious that the Bush revolution is powered by three major interest groups: the worshippers of power, the worshippers of capitalism, and the worshippers of God the Smiter. … Occasionally, the desire to make a buck will run up against one of the priorities of God the Smiter, or the worship of power will produce policies that are economically disastrous or interfere with the American capacity to smite. … Well, we are finding out which master Bush really serves, and surprise surprise, it's Mammon….And isn't it nice to know that with the system of checks and balances now fundamentally broken, the opposition party neutered, and the majority party being kept in line through a combination of bribery and threats, when Bush decides to sell out you, me, and the country for the benefit of his rich friends, there is no one to stop him….” http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x476018thread title (2-20-06 GD): VIDEO- KO on the UAE Ports with Bob Menendez Comment/excerpt: EXCELLENT. Liveoaktx/ Can-o-Fun VIDEO of Keith Olbermann with Sen. Menendez, who is co-sponsoring with Hillary Clinton a bill to block the Dubai Port Sale. Also includes clips of Chertoff (who expresses support for the sale), Ridge (who says there should be more transparency and that there are concerns about UAE) and d more. Very clear. UAE is apparently a transshipment point for nuclear arms – why could we be certain that they wouldn’t use the ports to bring in biological, chemical or nuclear weapons for terrorists acts? We can’t. Chertoff says that it’s a good idea to support TRADE, for chrissakes, and that there are controls in place. Of course, those controls are SECRET even from Congress. This would be putting control of crucial US ports into the hands of a foreign government. New York is one of them – and two of the 9/11 hijackers came from Dubai and the country was a supplier of cash for the 9/11 terrorists. Menendez calls on Bush to stop the sale before the deadline of March 2. If not, then the legislation will be pursued. He did make a mistake, saying that “only 95% of containers are inspected. Actually the number is much lower – he may have had it backwards.” http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x478454thread title (2-21-06 GD): CIA: UAE is a DRUG transhipment point (& money laundering) / PORT SALE Comment/excerpt: From the CIA web site: “The UAE is a drug transshipment point for traffickers given its proximity to Southwest Asian drug producing countries; the UAE's position as a major financial center makes it vulnerable to money laundering….”
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