Posted on 02/24/2006 2:37:07 PM PST by bildabare
Dubai Ports World is scheduled to take over operations at 22 U.S. ports, not six as previously reported by most major media.
According to the website of P&O Ports, the port-operations subsidiary of the London-based Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. (P&O), DPW will pick up stevedore services at 12 East Coast
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LOL. The same dock workers will be there smartass. The only thing different will be the signature on their paychecks.
Dubai already operates terminals overseas that send shipments here. If they were smuggling a nuke, they could of done it A LOOOOONG TIME AGO.
Also.. The threat of a "Suitcase Nuke" has been HIGHLY overhyped by the media. It's very very likely that absolutely ZERO of these such things exist.
Thank you for your reply. Like I said, it takes a lot of investigation to get to the bottom of all this and that's one thing I find disturbing.
Another thing I worry about--how solid is the UAE's support? Could their alliance shift?
I guess I remain worried but am open (and would be glad) to see that my concerns are unfounded.
Which companies, which ports?
One of the side effects of globalism is that it makes war less likely. When you're heavily invested in another country, you're going to do everything you can do ensure cooperation, stability, and peaceful resolutions to potential conflicts.
For example, China is not going to nuke our west coast. They might as well as nuke their own coast, because the effect would be the same. We frankly have more to fear from Russia since neither of the two countries have extensive economic ties with the other.
We have no encomic ties with Iran or North Korea. We had none with Iraq.
You won't bomb your customer. You might bomb your supplier if you think you can take over, but not your customer. The USA is the world's biggest customer and it took something like al-Qaida, which has no business ties to the US, to attack us. The UAE won't. They'd be cutting off their own nose.
Having them operating in our ports probably ensures that they will remain friendly indefinitely.
Do you realize you can smuggle really big nukes in a container ship?
You do realize that trying to smuggled a nuke in in a cargo container would be very dumb...it would be quickly detected.
"They are knee deep in supporting terrorist groups."
They are indeed. If it weren't so pathetic it would be humorous watching all the so-called conservatives on this site falling all over themselves trying to rationalize how this is a good thing.
"Inchcape Shipping Services is a global organization that works with over 2,000 owners and charterers through our network of 200 offices in 53 countries around the world providing them ... services to help improve the commercial performance of their voyage or trade," according to a statement by its London office.
What part of "COME CLEAN" does the administration not understand????? The real American People are fed up with all this.
Unless, of course, those who operated the ports had been bought off or shared the destructive ideology of the bombers...
Which is kinda the point of this whole thing.
Since you don't know the technology involved in radiological detection, and you're not going to either, or the people involved in those operations...that's a pretty lame comment to make.
I'll just add it to your tally.
It would all depend on where your wonderful radiological detection equipment was deployed, wouldn't it...
Nice to have those nursed on Wahabbism privy to such deployments, eh?
As I said, you have no clue about those operations...just like port operations in general.
So, we should just take the word of our betters, eh?
As you march lockstep with whatever the administration position might be.
If they changed tomorrow, you'd change right along with 'em.
At least try to take some of the word of those who are experts in the field.
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