Sea and air ports will stay under foreign control

[Robbien]

Iraq's air and sea ports will remain under foreign security control despite a formal transfer of sovereignty on June 30 to the interim government, according to coalition officials and security companies.

In the dying weeks of its rule, the occupation administration says it is issuing contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to British security contractors in an effort to prolong foreign oversight of strategic ports that are vital to the US-led reconstruction effort.

. . .

The coalition administration has also awarded Stevedoring Services of America a three-month contract to handle the administration and collection of revenue at the port, says SSA's John Walsh. An American company, Skylink, will continue to oversee air-traffic control at Baghdad airport at least until the end of September.

Last-minute manoeuvring to keep a tight rein on security illustrates the coalition's nervousness at the transfer of power of strategic assets to Iraqis. Iraqi officials who had hoped the airport would return to Iraqi hands have voiced frustration at this month's United Nations resolution binding them to uphold the contracts awarded from the Development Fund of Iraq, the deposit for Iraq's oil revenues which the US-led administration is using to pay contractors.

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Seems as if the "coalition" intends to commit all the funds in the trust and in spending it gets the secondary bonus of keeping Iraq under our thumb.

[nosmokes]

1. so we're transferring sovereignty to iraq anything

anything that's worth less than $99.99, for tax purposes, is that it?

and saddam. except we hold on to him until they're able to, as a "favor", right?

is that more or less correct?

[olddem43]

2. the new gov't will be given

immediate control over parking tickets.

[Aidoneus]

6. ...but they'll have to ask permission first

[Parche]

3. control

And also that black oozing stuff under the Iraqi sand will stay
under Foreign Control

[MaineDem]

4. I love all these "exceptions"

:eyes:

[tom_paine]

5. Hey, wasn't SSA the Bushevik Company where the Imperials

broke their Longshoremen Strike for them?

Now, naturally, they are in on the Fraud-and-Theft-Fest that is now the Amerikan province of Imperial Freedomstan.

Yah, they get their "own" government.

Just like the Soviet in Afghanistan in 1980.

EXACTLY like that, complete with no resal control ceded but papered over with a blizzard of Bolshevik (or Bushevik, deending on which you are speaking of) Lies.

[Robbien]

7. They were also the ones who also got paid to stand around

and watch unpaid Iraqis put Iraq's seaport back together again after we bombed it to pieces during the invasion.

[tom_paine]

8. Cool job. Ya think it's toolate for me to join the Bushevik Stooges

and get in on that?

Probably.

Ashcroft has ALL Free American bracketed and would NOT allow one of us to join the Imperial Bootlickers, even if we wanted to.

[2Design]

9. so they have the responsibility but none of the power for

self governing.....this allows bush to torture and not be responsible...???????
the deadline coincides with UN agreement expiration....what game are they playing now..