Does Bush even know that Al Qaeda used Dubai as "a logistical hub"?

[kpete]

Does Bush even know that Al Qaeda used Dubai as "a logistical hub"?
by Joe in DC - 2/21/2006 06:36:00 PM


Today, your President posed this challenge to the critics of his plan to turn over American port security to a company owned by the United Arab Emirates:

"I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a Great British company," Bush said. "I am trying to conduct foreign policy now by saying to the people of the world, `We'll treat you fairly.'"

Of course, Bush got a few facts wrong (not just making up the term "Great British"). The company is owned by another country. That's a critical fact Bush chooses to ignore.

............. How about we help explain the concern by pointing to this USA Today article from just 18 months ago?:

Osama bin Laden's operatives still use this freewheeling city as a logistical hub three years after more than half the Sept. 11 hijackers flew directly from Dubai to the United States in the final preparatory stages for the attack.

The recent arrest of an alleged top al-Qaeda combat coach is the latest sign that suspected members of the terrorist organization are among those who take advantage of travel rules that allow easy entry. Citizens of neighboring Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia can come to Dubai without visas, which other nationalities can get at the country's ports of entry.

Doesn't that make you feel safer?

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http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/02/does-bush-even-know-that-al-qaeda-used.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-09-02-terror-dubai_x.htm

[wtmusic]

1. If I were in al Qaeda

I would be foaming at the mouth about this one.

The ports deal will involve tens of thousands of employees. Forget nukes...just stick three or four of these at the back of one of the thousands of containers which arrive every day...



and bring America's commercial aviation to a standstill.

What were they thinking?

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Easy answer, Bushie......'everything changed with 9-11'. We're

in a 'war on terror' that you declared and have told us that the reason we invaded Iraq was their connection/support of al-Qaeda. So, in view of UAE support of the Taliban, al-Qaeda and their financing of the attack on 9-11, I think that Middle East country is technically our enemy.

[Just Me]

3. Even if he does know (as he should considering he is POTUS),...

,...would he care? :eyes: He doesn't give a crap about osama bin forgotten now that he's got his profiteering war on in the middle of the Middle East.