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To: Post-Neolithic
. . . which provides stevedoring and terminal services . . .

Key phrase here. These entities don't "run" anything.

This is sort of like having Donald Trump rent a luxury apartment in Manhattan to a Saudi prince. Anyone who used this to complain that "giving Trump Tower to the Saudis is dangerous" would be justifiably ridiculed for their ignorance.

27 posted on 02/17/2006 6:10:10 AM PST by Alberta's Child (Leave a message with the rain . . . you can find me where the wind blows.)
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To: Alberta's Child
Except that the Stevedors have direct access to cargo and terminal equipment. Which gives these people the opportunity to have "Their" cargo pass through the port without much inspection.

And I must also point out something which the people who are for this sale seem to conveniently pass over, this company(the U.A.E. affiliated one), is "Government owned", not privately. So we are giving a government, who in the past has been very hostile to us, the ability to strike at us from within. Not a very smart move.

30 posted on 02/17/2006 6:35:25 AM PST by Post-Neolithic
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