Skip to comments.
Security fears about infiltration by terrorists
Washington Times ^
| 02/22/06
| By Bill Gertz
Posted on 02/22/2006 8:30:35 AM PST by notes2005
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-31 next last
1
posted on
02/22/2006 8:30:36 AM PST
by
notes2005
To: notes2005
Our government is doing one Hell of a job.
2
posted on
02/22/2006 8:32:31 AM PST
by
oyez
(Appeasement is insanity)
To: notes2005
Mr. Rumsfeld said both he and Gen. Pace were unaware of the port-deal security issue until the weekend. They both must have just returned from a Mars flight. - Tom
3
posted on
02/22/2006 8:37:04 AM PST
by
Capt. Tom
(Don't confuse the Bushies with the dumb Republicans - Capt. Tom)
To: notes2005
I'm not any more concerned about infilltration than I already was. (quite a bit given our border situation) I'm more concerned that we can't seem to resist sending money to terrorists.
4
posted on
02/22/2006 8:38:36 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: notes2005
Tell one of our most important allies to hit the road? I think not!
To: notes2005; oyez
Let's see - A British Company is selling an American subsidiary to a UAE company. This bad because now terrorists will try to smuggle a nuclear device in a container as opposed when the Brits owned the company.
"Port operator's 'just make sure every ship and every truck is unloaded,' said Mike Bowden, president of International Longshoreman's Association Local 1459 in Mobile Ala."
Looks to me like a case of bigotry to me.
6
posted on
02/22/2006 8:46:30 AM PST
by
Jimmy Valentine's brother
(Crush Code Pink, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the womyn)
To: notes2005
Since only 5% of the containers are checked it would have been real easy for a terrorist to load one with a bomb ... hasn't happened yet ... this Dubai place is anti-terrorist themselves and they're the one's who will run the ports ... BTW, the Chinese manage the Panama Canal ..... the one that Jimmah gave away ....
7
posted on
02/22/2006 8:47:59 AM PST
by
SkyDancer
(" Ok, if it's global warming then what caused the Ice Age and what ended it?")
To: SkyDancer
"the one that Jimmah gave away ...."
Jimmah supports this one too.
8
posted on
02/22/2006 8:52:05 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: notes2005
could infiltrate seaports through a United Arab Emirates company that is vying to manage six U.S. ports. Too general a statement as to be meaningless. How would they infiltrate if that company just owns a British Company and all the workers at the port itself are American. I'd like too see a specific example of how this could occur.
To: cripplecreek
Right. Seems an easier way is for a terrorist to come across the border and hire on as a dock worker and somehow hamper security operations of specific cargoes by Coast Guard / Customs.
To: oyez
Don't worry, Bush is on the case. He wouldn't approve the deal, if he wasn't convinced the security will be air tight.
Just like he has done on the border since 9-11.
11
posted on
02/22/2006 9:32:23 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
To: notes2005
Administration security officials, Washington Times, Bill Gertz. Just a bunch of Democrat stooges. Rumsfeld clueless. No problem. "W" is in charge. Nothing to worry about. Limbaugh and Carter are on board. As a practitioner of the "religion of peace" once said to some apprehensive Americans; "just stay quiet and you will be O K."
12
posted on
02/22/2006 9:33:59 AM PST
by
isrul
To: notes2005
Rush just made an interesting point. The UAE airliners fly in and out of our airports everyday! Couldn't they just as easily be infiltrated and fly into buildings instead? The point being that we are never going to be 100% safe. We either trust our security measures which are in place or we do not. Apparently, the Coast Guard is stationed in the UAE and inspects the tankers before they leave their point of origin. The WH's PR on this has been woefully inadequate and it appears the majority of Americans have no idea how the ports are run. Perhaps, if they did, this firestorm would have never erupted. Our first chouce would be that no foreign entities operate our ports, but apparently they are all run by foreign entities! Now what?
To: Stellar Dendrite
14
posted on
02/22/2006 10:00:46 AM PST
by
hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: notes2005
More anti-bush propaganda by the ultra liberal Washington Times and that's pinkco commie Gertz
15
posted on
02/22/2006 10:05:01 AM PST
by
jpsb
To: notes2005
More anti-bush propaganda by the ultra liberal Washington Times and that pinkco commie Gertz
16
posted on
02/22/2006 10:05:13 AM PST
by
jpsb
To: cripplecreek
17
posted on
02/22/2006 10:22:47 AM PST
by
Stellar Dendrite
(There's nothing "Mainstream" about the Orwellian Media!!!)
To: jpsb; raybbr; DTogo; AZ_Cowboy; Itzlzha; Stellar Dendrite; NRA2BFree; Happy2BMe; Spiff; Pelham; ...
18
posted on
02/22/2006 10:23:40 AM PST
by
Stellar Dendrite
(There's nothing "Mainstream" about the Orwellian Media!!!)
To: notes2005
Yep. For the life of me, I can't see how they missed this angle. I can't. And they're trying to defend something most Americans think doesn't pass their "smell test." Yep, getting the UAE involved was a self-inflicted gunshot blast to the Administration's solar plexus and it stubbornly insists on compounding the political damage. Amazing!
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
19
posted on
02/22/2006 10:26:43 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: notes2005
It appears as usual, me a prime example I post prior to investigating an issue.
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co.'s stock holders had in 2/06 simply accepted a deal for P&O to be bought by Dubai Ports Worlds (DPW).
Now, P&O presently manage the US ports involved in this issue. I would asked everyone. If P&O is no longer in the position to offer the services, then who is going to do it? We must seperate out the functions rendered. P&O where did not provide the security portion of the operation. They are responsible for the managment, e.g. loading/unloading of containers and their source/destinations.
All we would see if a change in hands at the mother company level as who payes American workers, negotiates those workers salaries and benifit programs via. the local unions.
I think some of us are being confused by the L/MSM at what is factual and what is not.
If P&O are bought by DOW then the top managment changes. Not who runs our port operations. Surely all the operations are handled by American based local businesses under the guidance of federal and state laws as how our ports must be managed.
I sense strongly another dishonest attempt by the L/MSM and others to cloud the issues. As for Rummy being on board. Come on! He is responsible for the military not port security issues. His name never should surface in this issue. It tells me either people are clueless, or they are deviouse.
20
posted on
02/22/2006 11:35:45 AM PST
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-31 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson