• Beam: 105 feet, 8 inches
• Draft: 35 feet, 9 inches
• Displacement: 65,000 long tons
• Speed: 24.0 knots
• Organization: Surge
• Civilian: 30
• Military: 0
Posted on 02/22/2006 11:23:59 PM PST by demlosers
This is an old press release but it's news that's relevant today.
Info Ping.
I guess we trust them with the lives of our military but not with the rest of us.
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ABU DHABI AHHHH that sounds like a arab name! Im against this WTF are we doing! /sarcasm
In a few minutes the usual suspects will be here to dowse you in lighter fluid and set you a blaze :-)
If I'm reading this correctly, the contractor is a company, not the UAE government. And the contractor has no control over global shipping manifests. Etc. etc. etc. (See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1583769/posts?q=1&&page=1#1)
Yep!
But expect to be attacked by the people who just two days ago discovered their love for Arab nations.
We should not be doing the former either..
Time to reinspect those welds and look for hidden explosives.
So an UAE shipbuilding company has worked on our US Navy ships. If the US military trusts the UAE having access to our war ships, then why not our port terminals?
This is an old press release but it's news that's relevant today.
Who are running many of the U.S. Navy supply vessels???
9 years old, that would be during Clinton.
Yes, but it is an UAE company...so the only objections is because DP World is government own? I heard it's a private company that is heavily subsidized by the UAE government. The same way the EU subsidizes Airbus.
From article: "ADSB completed the repairs while the ship was docked in Jebel Ali Port, about 50 miles north of Abu Dhabi. A team of ADSB specialists and supervisors was dispatched to Jebel Ali from the company’s Abu Dhabi location and worked for several weeks to complete the required work on the vessel."
The work was done in the ME.
Why?
9 years old, that would be during Clinton.
The US Navy is still operating there in a big way, just ask the former CENTCOM commander:
Tommy Franks Defends Dubai Ports Deal
Former CENTCOM commanding general Tommy Franks said Wednesday that the Bush administration was right to approve a deal for a United Arab Emirates-based company to run six major U.S. ports.
"We have more U.S. Navy ships using the port in Dubai, Jebel Ali, than any other port outside the United States," Franks told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes."
The former Iraq war commander explained U.S. reliance on the Dubai port facility by saying, "We know he difference between an enemy and a friend." "The Emirates is a friend," Franks said. "That is the best run port that I've ever seen."
Gen. Franks said the Dubai company had three essential qualities that commend it for the task of running U.S. ports: the capacity to handle the job, the inclination to do it right and security, which he noted "will remain, in any case, in the hands of the United States Coast Guard."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/2/22/221135.shtml
Muslim Arabs building our warships? I believe them to be jihadists putting on a good face. They are not to be trusted. I thought after the Arab Muslim attack on America on 9/11, this would be obvious. The regime there regards the Taliban as the legitamate government of Afghanistan..
Worse, them Arabs don't get the good cable.
So what is it now... do we still call it the Persian Gulf, or are we now to call it the Arabian Gulf?
The Arabs have always called it the Arabian Gulf - it's kind of like one of those "Falkland Islands - Malvinas" conundrums. You have to choose sides!
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