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DP WORLD EXECUTIVE NOMINATED FOR PRESITIGOUS US GOVT POSITION (Dubai Ports World)
Dubai Ports World ^ | 24 January 2006 | Tom Mollo

Posted on 02/19/2006 12:33:10 PM PST by hedgetrimmer

Dubai, 24 January 2006: - Global ports operator DP World today welcomed news that one of its senior executives, Dave Sanborn, has been nominated by US President George W. Bush to serve as Maritime Administrator a key transportation appointment reporting directly to Norman Mineta the Secretary of Transportation and Cabinet Member.

The White House has issued a statement from Washington DC announcing the nomination. The confirmation process will begin in February.

Mr Sanborn currently holds the position of Director of Operations for Europe and Latin America for the Dubai-based company

Mohammed Sharaf, CEO, DP World said: “While we are sorry to lose such an experienced and capable executive, it is exactly those qualities that will make Dave an effective administrator for MarAd. We are proud of Dave’s selection and pleased that the Bush Administration found such a capable executive. We wish him all the best in his new role.”

Ted Bilkey, Chief Operating Officer, DP World said: “Dave’s decades of experience in markets around the world, together with his passion for the industry and commitment to its development, will allow him to make a positive contribution to the work of the Maritime Administration. We wish him well for the future.”

Mr Sanborn, a graduate of The United States Merchant Maritime Academy, joined DP World in 2005. He previously held senior roles with shipping lines CMA-CGM (Americas), APL Ltd and Sea-Land and has been based, besides the US, in Brazil, Europe, Hong Kong and Dubai during his career. He has also served in the US Naval Reserve.

Mr Sanborn is due to take up his new role based in Washington DC later in 2006.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: homelandsecurity; mohammedsharaf; movealongnow; nothingtoseehere; portssecurity; sharaf; terrorism; uae
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To: Dane
Tiger Woods is a private individual with no national security aspirations. He can golf in whatever tournament he wants. He is a private citizen.
101 posted on 02/19/2006 2:00:58 PM PST by tioga (Speaking out from the god-foresaken frozen tundra of the land of the hildebeast.)
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To: silentreignofheroes

Copy link to if you wish.


102 posted on 02/19/2006 2:01:44 PM PST by md2576
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To: Dane

fine, give him a fair hearing. but you seem to want to make his hearing consist of questions like "what did you get your kids for Xmas".

I want to know what role he played in securing US government approval for allowing these contracts to pass to the UAE controlled company, as a result of their acquisition.


103 posted on 02/19/2006 2:02:30 PM PST by oceanview
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To: oceanview

-a key issue in the sale? ....I know it was a private sale; was it contingent upon US approval? That I haven't seen answered yet. Guess I have more reading to do on this subject.


104 posted on 02/19/2006 2:02:32 PM PST by tioga (Speaking out from the god-foresaken frozen tundra of the land of the hildebeast.)
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To: MineralMan
We don't care about the money at all. We care about a company owned by a Muslim govenment acquiring large, sensitive holdings in this country and having one of their executives appointed to a near-cabinet-level position

Did you read the link in reply #80.

I can understand your qualms, but I can't understand people jumping on the hillary/schumer bandwagon, with their lies that they are taking over the ports, when a tiny bit of research will show they are not and that DHS is responsible for allsecurtiy, not DPWorld.

Heck I would be more concerned if a French company bought P&O, given their backstabbing ways.

105 posted on 02/19/2006 2:03:49 PM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: MineralMan
Tiger Woods is a golfer. He administers nothing of interest to national security. Nobody cares who pays him. Nobody cares about Tiger Woods at all.

This is akin to the Chewbacca Defense:

"Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookie, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does NOT MAKE SENSE! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does NOT MAKE SENSE! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does NOT MAKE SENSE!

If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests. "


It's just a matter of trading one red herring for another.
106 posted on 02/19/2006 2:03:57 PM PST by Das Outsider (The chief end of man is not civil freedom.)
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To: tioga

of course it was. Treasury approved it (with review from other agencies), not the private sector aspect of this deal - they approved the contracts for the US ports passing to DPW as a result of their acquisition. what their basis was for approving DPW, we do not yet know.


107 posted on 02/19/2006 2:04:42 PM PST by oceanview
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To: Dane

I'm on the Coburn/Santorum/Peter King/Graham bandwagon.


108 posted on 02/19/2006 2:05:19 PM PST by oceanview
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To: tioga
Tiger Woods is a private individual with no national security aspirations. He can golf in whatever tournament he wants. He is a private citizen

With world wide name recognition and who is giving legitimacy to the UAE by playing golf there.

You all should be at least consistent.

109 posted on 02/19/2006 2:05:40 PM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Das Outsider

LOL


110 posted on 02/19/2006 2:06:05 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite (There's nothing "Mainstream" about the Orwellian Media!!!)
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To: Dane

I am consistant. There is nothing wrong with foreign countries.....only the ones who want to control our ports. They will be involved in our national security at major ports. They will be privy to our national security secrets in our ports.


111 posted on 02/19/2006 2:09:51 PM PST by tioga (Speaking out from the god-foresaken frozen tundra of the land of the hildebeast.)
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To: hedgetrimmer
He's a great saxophonist, but how does that qualify Sanborn to run Maritme operations?


112 posted on 02/19/2006 2:12:48 PM PST by montag813
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To: hedgetrimmer
What are the 6 major US ports?
113 posted on 02/19/2006 2:15:17 PM PST by fella ("(News) should be the maximum of information & minimum of comment." - Cobden)
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To: hedgetrimmer
All you need to know about "why"...


114 posted on 02/19/2006 2:15:48 PM PST by montag813
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To: MineralMan

Isn't Dubai where Bin Laden went for treatments and supposedly was met by a CIA operative while in the hospital prior to 911? Or was that debunked?


115 posted on 02/19/2006 2:18:49 PM PST by gotribe (Hillary: Accessory to Rape)
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To: Dane
The company is owned by the UAE, which makes it a state run company (owned by the Sheik). The UAE has less than 1 million native people, but twice that many foreigners live there. It is a sheikdom federation run by some of the richest sheiks in the world. With over a 96% Muslim population and a judicial system partially secular and partially under Sharia law, it is a totally Muslim owned and controlled country.

We may be forced to buy oil from muslim potentates, but we shouldn't have to buy our own port services from them as well. I would rather let Donald Duck run our ports.

116 posted on 02/19/2006 2:21:58 PM PST by Gritty (Islamics have maps where national borders are replaced by an extremist Islamic empire- Rumsfeld)
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To: Gritty
The company is owned by the UAE, which makes it a state run company (owned by the Sheik). The UAE has less than 1 million native people, but twice that many foreigners live there. It is a sheikdom federation run by some of the richest sheiks in the world. With over a 96% Muslim population and a judicial system partially secular and partially under Sharia law, it is a totally Muslim owned and controlled country

I've read from people on FR who have been there that it is one of the most westernized of the Gulf states, heck even Tiger Woods plays golf there.

They ain't saudi arabia and according to reports I've heard, wish to build a modern society much different than the iranian mullahs.

117 posted on 02/19/2006 2:27:23 PM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Gritty

"I would rather let Donald Duck run our ports."

you are right


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1580971/posts
UAE, Palestine to set up a joint investment firm



http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1580589/posts

"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."


118 posted on 02/19/2006 2:42:00 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite (There's nothing "Mainstream" about the Orwellian Media!!!)
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To: Dane

Well, Dane, it makes me gag to think we have to rely on these people, but the simple fact despite your laudatory hoopla about the proposal is that this is payback.

It doesn't change. Xerxes, Caesar, Bush...the names change but the world doesn't.

It wouldn't be any different under the democrats since the game was already being played the same way...


119 posted on 02/19/2006 2:44:50 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Dane
They ain't saudi arabia and according to reports I've heard, wish to build a modern society much different than the iranian mullahs.

Well, I have spent some time in the UAE as well. It is a thoroughly Muslim country, ruled from the top down. Granted, it has some western-leaning ways, as it was owned by the British at one time. No, they are not quite Saudi Arabia, but they are closer than kissin' cousins. The people live under Sharia Law - which ought to tell you something about the personal freedoms people have and the kind of society they have. If you are a Muslim, you better not even think about leaving Islam, much less talk openly about it!

So, where do their real loyalties lie, besides the Almighty Dollar and the furtherance of their personal power?

I'll tell you what. I will agree to let the UAE run our ports when they agree to let Billy Graham run an open crusade at the Dubai Racing Track. OK? Oh, and they also have to let the Southern Baptist Convention finance and build a big church (at least the size of the mosque just south of Toledo, Ohio) down near the Dubai Gold Souk and open it to everybody, not just foreigners.

If they go along with those conditions, I'll gladly let them run our ports if they can do the job and are the lowest bidder. If not, they can just eat their oil money for all I care.

120 posted on 02/19/2006 2:44:57 PM PST by Gritty (The ‘clash of civilizations’ is between the 21st and the 7th centuries-Cal Thomas)
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