And you conclude from this that it was therefore Americans who were the terrorists, and not Islamic radicals?
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sorry, we are having trouble communicating
I never wrote that Americans were terrorists, but that terrorists used American items and situations to work their terror.
To state that two of the Sep 11 nineteen being from Dubai is a valid reason to withhold a business contract from a multi-billion dollar corporation seems a weak reason to me.
Obviously, we are failing to communicate. This is not the only reason for objecting to DP World terminal operations. Read the news. Heck, read my last post.
And by the way, what you apparently perceive as mere trivialities are, in sum, rather significant to say the least:
-- DP World, a Dubai state owned company, will be acquiring ownership rights over existing North American terminal infrastructure and operations at approximately 31 container, general cargo, and passenger terminals in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami, New Orleans, and Vancouver, complete with extant leasehold, stevedoring, wharfage, and seaway rights;
-- DP World will also own half of Norfolk's CP&O Ports Virginia, the largest stevedoring service in Hampton Roads;
-- DP World itself has been quoted as stating that "We intend to maintain and, where appropriate, enhance current security arrangements," making the claim that DP World will have no responsibility for security a rather strange little piece of spin;
-- Indeed, operations cannot be segregated from security, and to pretend that the two can be segregated is pure fantasy;
-- The base technology related to terminal security was principally the product of ITO's efforts (the terminal operator that preceded P&O Ports), and this technology will pass with the sale to DP World;
-- Dubai and Dubai-based companies and banking institutions have an ignoble and disturbingly direct history of ties to 9/11 and terrorist funding and transit (oh yeah, and that little triviality about the 9/11 perpatrators from Dubai); and
-- Curiously, given the importance of the decision to national security, the CFIUS did not conduct a 45-day investigation on top of the initial 30-day review that it usually gives to foreign purchases of U.S. businesses.