» posted on Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 at 12:24 pm by John
Arabs Having Ownership at Six American Ports
Let’s see. The story is that a company known as Dubai Ports World had just about completed a deal, a $6.8 billion acquisition of a British company, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Dubai Ports World, of the United Arab Emirates. That one. This is where Tiger Woods wins golf tournaments (Dubai). Oh yes, the same one that made it into the 9/11 Commission Report when the United Arab Emirates biggees were playing footsy (going hunting?) with Osama Bin Ladin.
Yesterday, the news secretary for President Bush, Scott McClellan, said:Â Â ”In hindsight, when you look at this and the coverage that it’s received and the false impression that is left with some, we probably should have briefed members of Congress about it sooner.”
As the great, learned Harvey Diltitcher once said, PERCEPTION IS REALITY. The deal looks dead.
Is it dead?  At least many people think so.  Don’t hang on every word here:  there may be something more to the whole story, and we may never hear of all of the devils in the detail.
Many people are dumping on the deal.  Unfortunately, and this is the only obvious conclusion that can be drawn thus far:  the Bush administration did not umbrella the deal properly for public consumption.
It depends on what damage control develops, and whether the possible underlying aim of the deal, if any, is impossible to achieve now.
So now we have to wait two or three years for somebody to write a book exposing what was happening here.
The problem is basic. It is the taint.  The perception. President Bush says the United Arab Emirates is a good ally of the U. S. especially in the fight against terrorism. The U. S. was doing the deal under the radar, it seems, because incorporated in it was an agreement for DP World to reveal records on demand about “foreign operational direction” of its business at  six U. S. ports (Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Miami, New Jersey and New Orleans).Â
It is confusing that the White House says President Bush did not know about the deal until recently.  You have to proceed with the conclusion that Scott McClellan does not dispense lies in any situation. This would seem to indicate nothing about terrorism was below the surface.Â
Probably nobody except one of those CIA whistleblower guys (traitors, maybe) will reveal whether the deal included a method of the U. S. to infiltrate more of the Middle East.  At least this time, no whistleblower apparently surfaced this deal, but that’s beside the point.
Because Homeland Security was the lead agency in shepherding the deal, it seems to me there was more here than the perception of Arabs running six U. S. ports.Â
On his radio talk show this morning, Michael Smerconish (Radio Station WPHT, Philadelphia) spent most of his three hours going over Pages 137-138 of the 9/11 Commission Report. There, you can read the account of how Richard Clarke somehow queered a plan to bomb Osama Bin Ladin in 1999. Â
The account tells about the planned attack on a hunting camp where Bin Ladin was in the vicinity of the Sheikh Ali camp in the desert south of Kandahar, Afghanistan. The attack was called off, according to the Commission report, because a United Arab Emirates prince also was there, along with others from the UAE.  A UAE airplane had brought the hunters to the desert camp.  The CIA not only did not want to kill a UAE prince, they were not convinced they could be sure of getting Bin Ladin. It doesn’t take one of them there rocket scientists to conclude that some Arabs from the UAE were enjoying some leisure time with the world’s Number One terrorist.
We are in a war.  It is a peculiar war because our enemies do not wear uniforms.  However, we may have to keep reading between the lines on the port story.  It does not seem very logical that the U. S. government would be doing a deal with Arabs during a war unless there is something there under the radar we don’t know about.  Â
After all, we do not want our U. S. government to broadcast the location, date and time of our next “attacks” against terrorism.
Maybe a method of fighting terrorism has been killed.  If so, it is unfortunate, and another casualty of war. But obviously, the President’s news secretary was right yesterday:   they didn’t do it correctly …. because
 ……….  Now most people think it was wrong.Â
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