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Friday, February 17, 2006

Stop the Port Sellout

This is an article today at World Net Daily about a recent merger deal approved by the government's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States that would turn over control of several major east cost U.S. ports to Emirati firm, Dubai Ports World. The ports involved are located in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Jersey, New Orleans and Miami. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has known ties to terrorists and the 9/11 hijackers. As the New York Post reports:


Dubai Ports, after all, is owned by the United Arab Emirates, whose banking system - considered the commercial center of the Arab world - provided most of the cash for the 9/11 hijackers. Indeed, much of the operational planning for the World Trade Center attacks took place inside the UAE. And while the Bush folks now consider the UAE a major ally in the war against terror, the Treasury Department has been stonewalled by the emirates, and other Arab countries, in trying to track Osama bin Laden's bank accounts. The new leader of Dubai, one of the seven small countries that make up the UAE, has said all the right things about fighting radical Islam since 9/11. But this remains very much an Islamist nation, where preaching any religion other than Islam is prohibited.

When questioned by World Net Daily, Presidential press secretary Scott McClellan responded with:

Well, my understanding is that this went through the national security review process under [the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States], at the Department of Treasury. That is the agency that is responsible for overseeing such matters. And this includes a number of national security agencies – the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Justice, among others, and there is a rigorous review that goes on for proposed foreign investments for national security concerns
He then went on to say that any questions about the specifics of this issue should be directed to the Department of Treasury. Well I 'm sorry but I just can't imagine how our Federal government can have such a flippant attitude about the turnover of control of these ports to a company in the UAE. President Bush has the authority to stop this deal and he should.

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