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Port Deal 'Pull Out' Is PHONY
Dubai Firm Gives Up Stake in U.S. Ports
Baker Key to Dubai Ports Mess
The Truth About Dubya And Dubai
New Concerns on Port Deal
Neil Bush and the United Arab Emirates
Reports Tied UAE to bin Laden
UAE Donated $1M To Bush Library
UAE, Port Security & Hariri Hit
Dole Hired to Lobby for Dubai Port Deal
UAE Would Control Shipments of Military Equipment
Objections to Port Takeover by Arab Entity

 

United Arab Emirates Controlling U.S. Ports

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APFN-Port Deal 'Pull Out' Is PHONY

Cheryl Seal
Port Deal 'Pull Out' Is PHONY - Dubai Will STILL Be Owner
Thu Mar 9, 2006 19:02

So we are all supposed to click our heels, grin and
give Bush a big ole thumbs up in the next approval
poll because he tossed out a bogus bone: The Dubai
Port deal "pull out." The Bushie media are spouting
this story as if Bush had "given up" and Dubai Port
World had withdrawn from the deal. But look again. DPW
is only turning operations over to an American holding
company. They are STILL the guys "behind the curtain."
This smells very much like a back rooms deal worked
out by Bush and his pals in Dubai/UAE. Just tell let
'em think they won - meanwhile, it'll be the same
company, different name on the door.

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Dubai Firm to Give Up Stake in U.S. Ports

By DAVID ESPO and ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writers1 hour, 9 minutes ago

Bowing to ferocious opposition in Congress, a Dubai-owned company signaled surrender

Thursday in its quest to take over operations at U.S. ports.

"DP World will transfer fully the U.S. operations ... to a United States entity," the firm's

top executive, H. Edward Bilkey, said in an announcement that capped weeks of controversy.

Relieved Republicans in Congress said the firm had pledged full divestiture, a decision that

one senator said had been approved personally by the prime minister of the United Arab Emirates.

A leading congressional critic of the ports deal, Rep. Peter King (news, bio, voting record),

applauded the decision but said he and others would wait to see the details. "It would have

to be an American company with no links to DP World, and that would be a tremendous

victory and very gratifying," said the New York Republican, chairman of the House Homeland

Security Committee.

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Baker Key to Dubai Ports Mess


by Anacher Forester
Thu Feb 23, 2006 at 12:09:34 PM PDT
Former Reagan Chief-of-Staff, ex-Treasury Secretary,
ex-Secretary of State, ex-NSC Council Member, ex-GWB
chief legal advisor, etc, and recent US Special Envoy
for Iraq debt is the invisible man in the middle of
this mess.

James A. Baker is Senior Partner of Baker Botts, a
legal firm very active in Middle East affairs perhaps
never more visibly than as legal representation for
the Saudi Royal family in the lawsuits brought by the
families of 9/11 victims. Baker Botts happens to
include Halliburton among its many clients and is
active in Egypt, Kuwait and Dubai, too.

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The Truth about Dubya and Dubai

by Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Nation
      This focus on an Arab company fuels prejudice and obscures the

      real issues at hand.

The fact is, the administration is defending this deal because their guiding principle is one

of maximizing corporate profits, as Harold Meyerson notes in the Washington Post yesterday.

Not surprisingly, the Bush administration has significant business ties to DP World.  According

to the New York Daily News, David Sanborn, who runs DP World's European and Latin American

operations, was named by Bush to direct the U.S. Maritime Administration just last month.

And Treasury Secretary John Snow, who headed the federal review of the deal, was Chairman

of CSX which sold its international port operations to DP Word for $1.15 billion just one year

before Mr. Snow joined the Bush cabinet.

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New Concerns on Port Deal Are Raised in Congress

March 1, 2006

By CARL HULSE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 — Lawmakers raised new objections on Tuesday to the proposed

takeover of some terminal operations at six United States ports by a Dubai company, demonstrating

that the administration-backed plan still faced significant obstacles despite an agreement for a more

extensive review of any security risks posed by the change in control.

Senate Democrats seized on a report that the parent company of state-owned Dubai Ports World

honors an Arab boycott of Israel, saying the United States should not be rewarding companies tied to

discrimination against a major ally.

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Neil Bush and the United Arab Emirates

By JEROME CORSI
February 27, 2006

INVESTORS from the United Arab Emirates helped fund the $23 million Neil Bush raised

for Ignite!, the learning systems company that holds lucrative No Child Left Behind Act

contracts in Florida and Texas.

Neil Bush’s frequent travels to Dubai are documented by Datamatix, a Dubai-based

information technology company that has featured Neil Bush as a speaker. The Datamatix

website features several prominent photographs of Neil Bush addressing a Dubai conference,

identifying Neil Bush as “the brother of U.S. President George Bush.”

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Reports Tied UAE to bin Laden, Cole Bombing

RAW STORY
Published: February 23, 2006

   As its ties to the U.S. war on terror are brought into the spotlight, more details about the

ties between The United Arab Emirates and U.S. enemies abroad are being unearthed.

The AP recently reported that the Sept. 11 Commission report states U.S. intelligence

believed that Osama bin Laden had visited an Afghan desert in 1999 near a hunting camp

used by UAE officials.

According to the AP, commission sources claimed that:

"Bin Laden regularly went from his adjacent camp to the larger camp where he visited the

Emiratis ... National technical intelligence confirmed the location and description of the larger

camp and showed the nearby presence of an official aircraft of the United Arab Emirates."

Reacting to this information, White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke reportedly

called the UAE to confront them about the government's reported contact with bin Laden,

hoping to monitor the camp to launch a missile strike when bin Laden returned. Less than a

week after the call, intelligence officials were "irate" to discover that the camp had been

abandoned and dismantled.

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United Arab Emirates Donated At Least $1M To Bush Library

POSTED: 7:37 am CST February 24, 2006

HOUSTON -- A sheik from the United Arab Emirates contributed at least $1 million to

the Bush Library Foundation, which established the George Bush Presidential Library at

Texas A&M University in College Station.

The UAE owns Dubai Ports World, which is taking operations from London-based Peninsular

and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which operates six U.S. ports.

A political uproar has ensued over the deal, which the White House approved without

congressional oversight. Dubai Ports World offered Thursday night to delay part of the takeover

to give the Bush administration more time to convince lawmakers the deal poses no security risks.

The donations were made in the early 1990s for the library, which houses the papers of former

President George Bush, the current president's father.

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UAE, Port Security & the Hariri Hit

By Robert Parry
February 22, 2006

The Bush administration is letting the United Arab Emirates take control of six key U.S.

ports despite its own port’s reputation as a smuggling center used by arms traffickers, drug

dealers and terrorists, apparently including the assassins of Lebanon’s ex-Prime Minister Rafik

Hariri.

Press accounts have noted that the UAE’s port of Dubai served as the main transshipment point

for Pakistani nuclear engineer Abdul Q. Khan’s illicit transfers of materiel for building atomic

bombs as well as the location of the money-laundering operations used by the Sept. 11 hijackers,

two of whom came from the UAE.

But the year-old mystery of the truck-bomb assassination of Hariri also has wound its way through

the UAE’s port facilities. United Nations investigators tracked the assassins’ white Mitsubishi Canter

Van from Japan, where it had been stolen, to the UAE, according to a Dec. 10, 2005, U.N. report.

At that time, UAE officials had been unable to track what happened to the van after its arrival in

Dubai. Presumably the van was loaded onto another freighter and shipped by sea through the Suez

Canal to Lebanon, but the trail had gone cold in the UAE.

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Former Senate Chief Dole Hired to Lobby for Dubai Port Deal

02/22/2006 @ 2:46 pm

Filed by RAW STORY

CNN reported on air Wednesday that former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-KS)

has been hired by Dubai Ports World to lobby for the approval of a deal that would give the

company control of several major U.S. ports, RAW STORY has learned.

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UAE Would Also Control Shipments of Military

Equipment For The U.S. Army

There is bipartisan concern about the Bush administration’s decision to outsource the

operation of six of the nation’s largest ports to a company controlled by the United Arab

Emirates (UAE) because of that nation’s troubling ties to international terrorism. The sale

of P&O to Dubai World Ports would give the state-owned company control of “the ports

of New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.”

A major part of the story, however, has been mostly overlooked. 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:

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More Objections to Port Takeover by Arab Entity

February 20, 2006

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 — Conditions set by the federal government for approving an

Arab company's takeover of operations at six major American ports are not enough to

guard against terrorist infiltration, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee

said Sunday.

"I'm aware of the conditions, and they relate entirely to how the company carries out its

procedures, but it doesn't go to who they hire, or how they hire people," said the chairman,

Representative Peter T. King, Republican of New York. Mr. King said senior administration

officials had shared details of the sale with him.