[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.

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.

[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

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.

[Stellar Dendrite]

"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."