This might explain some of it

[SHRED]

This might explain a bit of the story.


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DP WORLD EXECUTIVE NOMINATED FOR PRESITIGOUS US GOVT POSITION

Dubai, 24 January 2006: - Global ports operator DP World today welcomed news that one of its senior executives, Dave Sanborn, has been nominated by US President George W. Bush to serve as Maritime Administrator a key transportation appointment reporting directly to Norman Mineta the Secretary of Transportation and Cabinet Member.

The White House has issued a statement from Washington DC announcing the nomination. The confirmation process will begin in February.

CONTINUED: http://www.dpiterminals.com/fullnews.asp?NewsID=39

[bigscott]

1. has anybody looked into

any ties with the UAE and the Carlyle Group - * seniors company? After all it IS *'s inheritance

[electropop]

2. The rest of the story: Secretary Snow financially connected.

KRT wire
Dubai company set to run U.S. ports has ties to administration
Feb. 21, 2006

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/politics/13...

WASHINGTON - The Dubai firm that won Bush administration backing to run six U.S. ports has at least two ties to the White House.

One is Treasury Secretary John Snow, whose department heads the federal panel that signed off on the $6.8 billion sale of an English company to government-owned Dubai Ports World - giving it control of Manhattan's cruise ship terminal and Newark's container port.

Snow was chairman of the CSX rail firm that sold its own international port operations to DP World for $1.15 billion in 2004, the year after Snow left for President Bush's cabinet.

The other connection is David Sanborn, who runs DP World's European and Latin American operations and who was tapped by Bush last month to head the U.S. Maritime Administration.