UAE terminal takeover extends to 21 ports

UPI ^ | 2/24/2006 | PAMELA HESS

[Eagle Eye]

Hmmm...rather scary that we agree so much on this issue.

Did you feel the shift in the Earth's axis?

[kaktuskid]

According to Kimmitt, the deal was reported on in major newspapers as early as last October. But it did not get critical attention in the press until the Associated Press broke the story Feb. 11 and the Center for Security Policy, a right-leaning organization, wrote about it Feb. 13. CSP posited the sale as the Treasury Department putting commerce interests above national security.

Apparently no one in congress (or many on this site)reads the business section

[Marine Inspector]

Best they can hope for is to cross train everyone so that they can work either place.

That's pretty much what is going on here, but with resistance from both ends.

[Flavius Josephus]

I say, let them buy 21 golf courses. I have absolutely no problem with that. Not 21 ports.

[ex-snook]

Thanks for the link. Guess we are left with that these are jobs Americans won't take so we need to import foreign talent.

[Marine Inspector]

The previous company was UK and the new company is UAE. That fact that a UAE company purchased a UK company does not affect US jobs.

The vast majority of the works at the ports are and still will be US Citizens. The changing of management won't affect American jobs.

[WatchingInAmazement]

I've been thinking about Iraq and the reasons we've been given to go to war.

Like possible weapons of mass destruction. Aiding Al-Quida. Radical Islamic influence. Refusal to recognize Isreal. Transit point for terrorists. Relationship with Bin Laden.....

Oh, nevermind, that's the UAE.

In other words, we had more reason to attack the UAE than Iraq!

[CWOJackson]

LOL! Strange how we rely on the UAE's ports and operations to maintain the logistics support of our troops in the field and trust them to provide port services to the largest collection of U.S. Navy ships outside the U.S. itself.

[hedgetrimmer]

Strange Treasonous how we rely on the UAE's ports and operations to maintain the logistics support of our troops

[CWOJackson]

Yep, you have to hate treasonous people like General Tommy Franks. What does he know about national security, terrorism, the middle east and the UAE?

[Howlin]

On Fox just a bit ago, they said that UAE is taking over TWO terminals out of 182 in NYC.

Two.

2.

[colorado tanker]

Muldoon is an attorney representing Eller & Co., a port facility operator in Florida partnered with M&O in Miami. Eller opposes the Dubai takeover for security reasons.

Call me a cynic, but I have the feeling that attorney Muldoon and his client aren't opposing this deal out of an altruistic concern for my "safety."

[ex-snook]

"The previous company was UK and the new company is UAE. That fact that a UAE company purchased a UK company does not affect US jobs."

So what? It's still importing foreigers to do jobs Americans won't do or our companies won't accept.

[CWOJackson]

Fox is just trying to cover up for President Bush! We all know they're bushbots.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Only takes one nuke to ruin your whole day.

[WatchingInAmazement]

LOL! Strange how we rely on the UAE's ports and operations to maintain the logistics support of our troops in the field and, blah, blah, blah....

Keep laughing. We once partnered up with Saddam and Bin Laden. So what?

[Final Authority]

WRT post 44, don't you think those deep within the administration have seen what influence FR has on the direction of the thought process within the blogsphere? Could it be that there are folks paid for by us (taxpayers) who spend their days blogging here and elsewhere attempting to sway CW? I think so and I think you and I and many others can name some of those whom we may expect to be on the job, as it were.

[CWOJackson]

LOL! And we now rely on DP World and the UAE to provide key logistical support to our troops in the field and the largest collection of U.S. Navy ships outside of the U.S. Of course that decision was made by people with real knowledge of the situation and no political axe to grind.

[hedgetrimmer]

Gen. Franks admitted the issue was political. So was the forced bunkering of the USS Cole in Yemen by Gen. Zinni. So what are you saying?

[CWOJackson]

Comparine General Zinni with General Franks...how predictable. General Franks has had nothing but positive comments regarding the UAE, their support of the WoT and their ability to manage the ports.