[farmer18th]

Since the hands on work of loading ships and port security will be done by Americans and the UAE will be administrative, it might be this is designed to open a surveillance channel.

So the decision to allow UAE Muslims to control hiring is sort of a "give-up a lot of vital territory to get a little information" sort of thing? The thing I don't understand is: how will Muslim managers operate if they can't cut off the heads of unbelievers? (Or are we going to allow that to get some informtation?)