Dubai company set to run U.S. ports has ties to administration 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. The ties raised more concerns about the decision to give port control to a company owned by a nation linked to the Sept. 11 hijackers.Just like George Bush himself walking through the
Rose Garden holding hands with the Saudis, the same Saudis that supplied 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers, and bin Laden himself, he's now screwing the country once again by giving into the UAE. The UAE, not only supplied two of the hijackers, but our own intelligence services tell us that al-Qaeda laundered '$10's of billions' through their banks to finance their terrorists attacks against us.
Wake up America. The Bush administration will take the money over your security every single chance they get.
