Bush Admin "review" focused on DP World only, NOT UAE Government

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Homeland Security Objected to Ports Deal

By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 41 minutes ago

A DP World executive said the company would agree to tougher security restrictions to win congressional support only if the same restrictions applied to all U.S. port operators. The company earlier had struck a more conciliatory stance, saying it would do whatever Bush asked to salvage the agreement. "Security is everybody's business," senior vice president Michael Moore told The Associated Press. "We're going to have a very open mind to legitimate concerns. But anything we can do, any way to improve security, should apply to everybody equally."

The administration approved the ports deal on Jan. 17 after DP World agreed during secret negotiations to cooperate with law enforcement investigations in the future and make other concessions. Some lawmakers have challenged the adequacy of a classified intelligence assessment crucial to assuring the administration that the deal was proper. The report was assembled during four weeks in November by analysts working for the director of national intelligence.

The report concluded that U.S. spy agencies were "unable to locate any derogatory information on the company," according to a person familiar with the document. This person spoke only on condition of anonymity because the report was classified.

Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record), D-Mich., and others have complained that the intelligence report focused only on information the agencies collected about DP World and did not examine reported links between UAE government officials and al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden before the Sept. 11 attacks.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ports_security&printer=1

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1. Why don't they mention that UAE's government is a Dictatorship run

by Sultan Something or other.

[HereSince1628]

2. The public isn't going to let that pass. It's near hysteria after 9/11

that was mostly induced by extensive social manipulation of society by Fear Inc., a.k.a. the Bush regime.

And we have yet to hear much from other countries who are going to be caught up in the same sale. It sounds like Brazil isn't entirely too keen on it.

It's time for Bush to face it, when you sow the storm, you reap the whirlwind. The Dubai deal is going to get the duck taped. DPW will need to separate the American ports from the sale.