Additionally, if a dirty bomb is somehow snuck through those ports on the watch of the UAE, even if the risk of such happening is no different no matter who would control the commercial facility operations, the UAE is going to be perceived as traitors and there will be a severe backlash for Republicans and conservatives.
That is my take on this issue.
AQ is probably planning as we speak...that would look pretty bad, should a UAE port go kaboom after this deal goes down.
Only to the level that they have to be in order to meet mandated compliance...nothing more. In other words, to about the same level you can already obtain from most the of the dock workers.
This isn't about port security. Everyone of those dock workers currently picketing, 100% of them, works for a foreign owned company...including a Saudi company.
"The UAE will still be privy to security information. Thus, someone could possess your understanding of the facts, and be uncomfortable with allowing them commercial facility operations."
Well that could be said about any country...China also operates ports and I don't consider them great fans.