Bloomberg: Dubai Harbored Hijackers? Big Deal, Bush Says

[PhilipShore]

Bloomberg
Dubai Harbored Hijackers? Big Deal, Bush Says: Margaret Carlson
Feb. 23

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&cid=carlson&sid=aTeqDkTaMDsA

Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- I wonder what the president feels like these days as 9/11, the default card used to start wars and squelch dissent, is being played against him?

Letting a United Arab Emirates company take over six major American ports, including New York, may not be as insane as it looks. Ports are globalized, and next to, say, Iran, Dubai looks tolerable. But it will never look wise for the president to be so inattentive that he didn't know about the takeover beforehand, or stop it for further reflection once he did.

George W. Bush believes in delegating, and delegate he did, to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a multiagency body created in 1975 to assess the security risks when foreigners want to invest in this country. The commission has turned down one deal out of 1,500.

Its deliberations are shrouded in secrecy, so no one knows how the commission came to be fine with the notion that our ports should be managed by a country that is a laundromat for terrorist cash, was home to two of the Sept. 11 hijackers, and was a base of operations for a massive nuclear proliferation operation run by the Pakistani atomic scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.

[Oilwellian]

1. Great piece

And to come from Bloomberg. Wow. :D