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20080306

Dick Cheney - Corporate - Military - Government - KBR-Halliburton - Cayman Islands - United Arab Emirates (Dubai) - Secret - Iraq - Oil - Infrastructure - History - American - Workers - Health - Security - Legislation - Massachusetts - "Top Iraq contractor skirts US taxes offshore: Shell companies in Cayman Islands allow KBR to avoid Medicare, Social Security deductions." ... "Kellogg Brown & Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp. [Corporation], has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in this tropical tax haven [Cayman Islands]." ... "More than 21,000 people working for KBR in Iraq - including about 10,500 Americans - are listed as employees of two companies that exist in a computer file on the fourth floor of a building on a palm-studded boulevard here in the Caribbean. Neither company has an office or phone number in the Cayman Islands." ... "The Defense Department has known since at least 2004 that KBR was avoiding taxes by declaring its American workers as employees of Cayman Islands shell companies, and officials said the move allowed KBR to perform the work more cheaply, saving Defense dollars." ... "But the use of the loophole results in a significantly greater loss of revenue to the government as a whole, particularly to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds." ... ""Failing to contribute to Social Security and Medicare thousands of times over isn't shielding the taxpayers they claim to protect, it's costing our citizens in the name of short-term corporate greed," said [Massachusetts Democratic] Senator John F. Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee who has introduced legislation to close loopholes for companies registering overseas." ... "With an estimated $16 billion in contracts, KBR is by far the largest contractor in Iraq, with eight times the work of its nearest competitor." ... "The [secret] no-bid contract it received in 2002 to rebuild Iraq's oil infrastructure and a multibillion-dollar contract to provide support services to troops have long drawn scrutiny because [Republican] Vice President Dick Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive from 1995 until he joined the Republican ticket with [Republican] President Bush in 2000." ... "The largest of the Cayman Islands shell companies - called [SEII] Service Employees International Inc. [Incorporated, which is not associated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)], which is now listed as having more than 20,000 workers in Iraq, according to KBR - was created two years before Cheney became Halliburton's chief executive. But a second Cayman Islands company called Overseas Administrative Services, which now is listed as the employer of 1,020 mostly managerial workers in Iraq, was established two months after Cheney's appointment." ... "If KBR's American workers averaged even as much as $63,000 per year, they and KBR would have owed more than $100 million per year in Social Security and Medicare taxes, split evenly between them. Over the course of the five-year war, their tax bill would have been more than $500 million." ... "The real managers of Service Employees International work out of KBR's office in Dubai. KBR and Halliburton, which also moved to Dubai [an emirate of the United Arab Emirates], severed ties last year." -By Farah Stockman with contributions by Stephanie Vallejo and Matt Negrin -Boston/Globe

20071127

United Arab Emirates - US - Saudi Arabia - Politics - "Abu Dhabi to Bolster Citigroup With $7.5 Billion Capital Infusion: Government Investment Arm To Become a Top Holder, With Up to a 4.9% Stake." ... "Citigroup Inc., seeking to restore investor confidence amid massive losses due in credit markets and a lack of permanent leadership, is receiving a $7.5 billion capital infusion from the investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government [United Arab Emirates' capital]." ... "The investment by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority [ADIA] will help rebuild Citigroup's capital levels, which have been eroded by a credit crunch that began in the summer. Citigroup Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Charles Prince resigned earlier this month after the bank, which had already written off billions of dollars, said it was facing as much as $11 billion more in losses." ... "As a result of the deal, the investment authority known as ADIA will become one of Citigroup's largest shareholders, with a stake of no more than 4.9%. The stake will exceed that of Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, long known as one of Citigroup's largest shareholders, according to a person familiar with the situation." ... "The investment underscores the growing role that Middle Eastern investors are taking outside their home turf. Separately yesterday, an investment company owned by Dubai's ruler [Dubai is one of the seven emirate if the United Arab Emirates federation], Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, bought a stake in Sony Corp. ADIA, which has almost $1 trillion under management, this summer bought a small stake in Apollo Management LP." -By Robin Sidel with contributions by David Enrich -WSJ.com

20071116

United Arab Emirates - US - Military - Computer - Technology - "Abu Dhabi buys stake in AMD." ... "Abu Dhabi's [United Arab Emirates' capital] Mubadala Development Co said on Friday it had bought 8.1 percent of U.S.-based Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the second-largest maker of computer processors." ... ""We have already bought the stake as of today," Mubdala's chief operating officer, Waleed al-Mokarrab al-Muhairi, told Reuters in a text message." ... "He did not say how much Mubadala, owned by the government of the world's sixth-largest oil exporter, had paid for the stake." ... "Still the deal could attract the attention of the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment, which vets acquisitions by overseas investors, particularly in technology and defense companies, on national security grounds, it said." (1, 2) -By Dayan Candappa with contributions by Valerie Lee, Justin Grant and Quentin Bryar -Reuters

20070913

US - Iraqi - United Arab Emirates - Texas - Oil - Money - Law - "Compromise on Oil Law in Iraq Seems to Be Collapsing." ... "A carefully constructed compromise on a draft law governing Iraq’s rich oil fields, agreed to in February after months of arduous talks among Iraqi political groups, appears to have collapsed. The apparent breakdown comes just as Congress and the [Republican President Bush] White House are struggling to find evidence that there is progress toward reconciliation and a functioning government here." ... "Senior Iraqi negotiators met in Baghdad [Iraq's capital] on Wednesday in an attempt to salvage the original compromise, two participants said. But the meeting came against the backdrop of a public series of increasingly strident disagreements over the draft law that had broken out in recent days between Hussain al-Shahristani, the Iraqi oil minister, and officials of the provincial government in the Kurdish north, where some of the nation’s largest [oil] fields are located." ... "The oil law — which would govern how oil fields are developed and managed — is one of several benchmarks that the Bush administration has been pressing the Iraqis to meet as a sign that they are making headway toward creating an effective government." ... "Contributing to the dispute is the decision by the Kurds to begin signing contracts with international oil companies before the federal law is passed. The most recent instance, announced last week on a Kurdish government Web site, was an oil exploration contract with the Hunt Oil Company of Dallas [Texas]." ... "The Sunni Arabs who removed their support for the deal did so, in part, because of a contract the Kurdish government signed earlier with a company based in the United Arab Emirates, Dana Gas, to develop gas reserves." (1, 2) -By James Glanz with contributions by Ahmad Fadam, Ali Hamdani and Khalid al-Ansary -NYTimes

20070311

United Arab Emirates - US - Texas - Iraq - Oil - Cheney - Government - Money - Politics - "Halliburton Will Move HQ to Dubai." ... "Oil services giant Halliburton Co. will soon shift its corporate headquarters from Houston [Texas] to the Mideast financial powerhouse of Dubai [United Arab Emirates], chief executive Dave Lesar announced Sunday." ... "In 2006, Halliburton _ once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney _ earned profits of $2.3 billion on revenues of $22.6 billion." ... "Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive from 1995-2000 and the Bush administration has been accused of favoring the conglomerate with lucrative no-bid contracts in Iraq." ... "Federal investigators last month alleged Halliburton was responsible for $2.7 billion of the $10 billion in contractor waste and overcharging in Iraq." -By Jim Krane -AP via -HoustonChronicle.com

20060315

US - United Arab Emirates - Transport - Political - Government - Bill Frist - Tenn. - "Dubai Firm Outlines Port Sales Plan." ... "A [UAE] Dubai-owned company said Wednesday it plans to sell all its U.S. port operations within four to six months to an unrelated American buyer and laid out new details about how it plans to pursue the sale under pressure from Congress." ... "Meanwhile, the political fallout from the port deal continued as Republicans blocked a Democratic effort Wednesday to force House votes on expanding government scrutiny of foreign investments." ... "Questions about the divestiture intensified during the weekend, when Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said DP World could be permitted to operate and manage some U.S. ports if no suitable American buyer were found and if the Bush administration determined there were no security risks." (1, 2) -AP -CBSNews

20060314

US - United Arab Emirates - Transport - Florida - Politics - "Update 2: E-Mail Casts Doubt on DP World's Plans." ... "The [UAE] Dubai-owned company that promised to surrender its U.S. port operations has no immediate plans to sell its U.S. subsidiary's interests at Miami's seaport, a senior executive wrote Monday in a private e-mail to business associates." ... "Even if DP World were to sell its Miami [Florida] operations to quell the congressional furor over an Arab-owned company managing major U.S. ports, "that would probably take a while," wrote Robert Scavone, a vice president for DP World's U.S. subsidiary." -By Ted Bridis -AP via -Forbes

20060309

US - United Arab Emirates - Transport - Bill Frist - Jack Abramoff - Money - Tennessee - Connecticut - New York - "Frist Suspends Senate Ethics Debate After Losing on Dubai Vote." ... "U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist [Tennessee Republican] suspended debate on overhauling lobbying rules after the chamber refused to prevent a vote on blocking a state-owned [UAE] Dubai company from taking over terminals at six American ports." ... "Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the Rules Committee, urged Frist to allow debate to continue immediately on the lobbying measure, which was brought to the Senate floor in response to the scandal involving Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff." ... "``Doing ethics reform and dealing with the Dubai issue are not mutually exclusive,'' [New York Democratic Senator Chuck] Schumer said before today's vote." -By Jonathan D. Salant -Bloomberg
US - United Arab Emirates - Transportation - Business - "UAE firm to transfer port operations to U.S. 'entity': Sources: House, Senate leaders tell Bush deal appears dead." ... "United Arab Emirates-owned DP World said Thursday it would transfer its operations of American ports to a U.S. "entity" after congressional leaders reportedly told President Bush that the firm's takeover deal was essentially dead on Capitol Hill." ... ""Because of the strong relationship between the United Arab Emirates and the United States and to preserve that relationship ... DP World will transfer fully the U.S. operations of P&O Operations North America to a United States entity," Edward H. Bilkey, DP World's chief operating officer, said in a statement." ... "The announcement did not specify which American company would be involved." -Contributed to by Dana Bash, Ed Henry, Suzanne Malveaux and Deirdre Walsh -CNN

20060304

US - United Arab Emirates - Iraq - Military - New York - "No Iraq Trip for Legislator Who Opposed Deal on Ports." ... "Representative Peter T. King's prominent opposition to a proposal to allow a [United Arab Emirates] Dubai company to take over some terminal operations at American ports may have earned him some punishment from the Bush administration: He has been grounded." ... "Mr. King, the New York Republican who is chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, confirmed Friday that a few days after he first threatened legislation to hold up the port deal, the Pentagon informed him that it could not provide an aircraft for his planned March Congressional delegation to Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East." -Carl Hulse -NYTimes
US - United Arab Emirates - Business - New York - Arkansas - Library - "Hillary Clinton 'unaware' of Bill's Dubai ties." ... "[New York Democrat] Hillary Clinton, a leading opponent of DP World's takeover of some US port operations, was this week forced to admit that she did not know her husband had advised Dubai leaders on how to handle the growing dispute." ... "But former President Bill Clinton's ties to Dubai and the United Arab Emirates should not have come as a surprise to his New York senator wife." ... "Mrs Clinton's own senatorial financial disclosure forms reveal that her husband earned $450,000 giving speeches in Dubai in 2002." ... "Officials from the UAE also donated between $500,000 and $1m to fund Mr Clinton's presidential library in Arkansas." -By By Stephanie Kirchgaessner -FT.com via -MSNBC

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20060303

US - United Arab Emirates - Politics - "Ports Deal Faces Wide Opposition: Bush's ratings sink, weighed down by the Dubai firm uproar and discontent over Iraq." ... "Americans, by a greater than 3-1 margin, oppose the proposed deal that would allow a state-owned Arab firm to assume control of operations at several U.S. ports, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found." ... "The takeover faces broad opposition — substantial margins of Democrats, independents and Republicans said they did not want the agreement to proceed." ... "Buffeted by resistance to the port transaction and discontent over the turmoil in Iraq, President Bush's approval rating fell to 38%, the lowest level recorded for him in a Times poll. His disapproval rating rose to 58%." (1, 2) -By Ronald Brownstein with contributions by Richard Simon and Matthew O'Rourke -LAtimes

20060302

United Arab Emirates - US - Iran - Iraq - Kuwait - Israel - Global - Politics - History - "Emirate Wakes Up Famous. Thank You, America." ... "In the 1980's it [Dubai] built strong relations with Iran by serving as a waypoint to the rest of the world and offering a lifeline during the Iran-Iraq war. In 1991, it became a haven for Kuwaitis who escaped Saddam Hussein's invading armies, then in 2003 it became a haven for Iraqis escaping the second gulf war. And in the years since, Dubai has gradually fashioned itself into a refuge for Iranians, Arabs and others who have eschewed the call to America or the West in exchange for a lifestyle that comes close, but is in keeping with Middle Eastern values." ... "With 85 percent of the population made up of foreigners, many of them second and third generation, the city faces a simmering demographic and identity crisis." ... "Dubai is likely to confront numerous other questions as a 45-day investigation of its [United States] port management program gets under way, possibly illuminating the emirate's struggles with money laundering and other illicit activities. A spotty human rights record regarding foreign workers could also be a sticking point, along with its participation in a continuing Arab boycott of trade with Israel." -By Hassan M. Fattah with contributions by Mohammed Fadel Fahmy -NYTimes

20060301

US - United Arab Emirates - Israel - Business - "Senators Have New Ports Deal Objection: The United Arab Emirates participates in a boycott of products made in Israel." ... "Senate Democrats opened a new line of attack Tuesday against the controversial Dubai ports deal, challenging the head of the United Arab Emirates company to explain the nation's support of a boycott against Israel." ... "But President Bush showed no signs of backing down, voicing renewed support for the deal even as a new poll showed 7 in 10 Americans opposed it. Bush also hit an all-time low approval rating, with 1 in 3 Americans saying he's doing a good job." ... "At a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, the company's chief operating officer, Edward Bilkey, confirmed that the same UAE-owned holding company that owns Dubai Ports World also owns a Dubai customs office that enforces the nation's participation in an Arab League boycott of products made in Israel." -By Craig Gordon -Newsday.com via -LAtimes
US - United Arab Emirates - Transportation - Business - Government - Terrorism - Intelligence - New York - "Lawmaker: Port deal never probed for terror ties." ... "A review of a United Arab Emirates-owned company's plan to take over a portion of operations at key U.S. ports never looked into whether the company had ties to al Qaeda or other terrorists, a key Republican lawmaker told CNN on Wednesday." ... "Rep. Peter King of New York, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said officials from the Homeland Security and Treasury departments told him weeks ago that their 30-day review of the deal did not look into the question of links between DP World and al Qaeda." ... "King said the officials told him after he asked about investigation into possible terrorist ties: "Congressman, you don't understand, we don't conduct a thorough investigation. We just ask the intel director if there is anything on file, and he said no."" ... ""There was no real investigation conducted during the 30-day period," King, who has been a vocal critic of the deal, told CNN. "I can't emphasize this enough,"[.]" -Contributed to by Ed Henry -CNN

20060227

United Arab Emirates - US - Global - "A Small Emirate With Big Ambitions: Dubai's controversial ports deal is but one example of its rapid economic expansion." ... "The Dubai company that has raised security concerns in Washington with its deal to manage ports in six U.S. cities epitomizes the global economic ambitions of this small emirate, which seems to daily send another glittering bank or post-modern financial tower racing skyward." ... "Lacking the large oil reserves of many of its neighbors, the ruling Maktoum family began working three decades ago to turn Dubai into a crossroads of commerce and the economic power of the seven sheikdoms that form the United Arab Emirates." ... "But alongside the emirate's quick ascent, there have been revelations that its loosely regulated markets and banks have attracted Al Qaeda militants, drug smugglers and nuclear black marketeers." -By Jeffrey Fleishman -LAtimes
US - United Arab Emirates - Water - Transportation - Business - Military - Terrorism - Politics - "Coast Guard: Intelligence gaps limited ports deal threat assessment." ... "The Coast Guard warned in December that the proposed takeover of some U.S. port operations by a state-owned company in the United Arab Emirates raised "intelligence gaps" that made it difficult to assess the deal's possible threat to national security." ... "Because the government of the United Arab Emirates owns DP World, and because the UAE had connections to al-Qaida in the past, a political firestorm erupted earlier this month over fears that the company might make U.S. ports vulnerable to terrorist attack. The Bush administration says such fears are groundless and that the UAE is now an ally in the war on terrorism." ... "The document, prepared by the Coast Guard's Intelligence Coordination Center, said the intelligence gaps included the security environment at DP World terminals, the backgrounds of company personnel and whether there was any foreign influence in the company's operations." -By William Douglas and James Kuhnhenn -KnightRidder via -MercuryNews

20060224

US - United Arab Emirates - Transportation - Company - Terrorism - Intelligence - New-Jersey - "Bush Admin. Won't Reconsider Ports Deal: Bush Admin. Won't Reconsider Ports Deal; 9/11 Panel Head Says Deal Never Should Have Happened." ... "The Bush administration said Friday it won't reconsider its approval for a United Arab Emirates company to take over significant operations at six U.S. ports. The former head of the Sept. 11 commission said the deal "never should have happened." ... "Thomas Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey who led the bipartisan probe of the Sept. 11 attacks, said the deal was a big mistake because of past connections between the 2001 hijackers and the UAE." ... "The former head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit joined in the criticism." ... ""The fact that you are putting a company in place that could already be infiltrated by al-Qaida is a silly thing to do," said Mike Scheuer, who headed the CIA unit until 1999." (1, 2, 3) -By Donna De La Cruz with contributions by Katherine Shrader, Ted Bridis, Liz Sidoti, Devlin Barrett and Jeffrey Gold -AP via -ABCNEWS.com
US - United Arab Emirates - Iraq - Military - Texas - Water - "Lawmakers have military concerns at ports." ... "Military officials said Thursday they weren't concerned that a subsidiary of a United Arab Emirates-owned company could soon be working with tons of military shipments to Iraq through Texas ports, but several lawmakers said it raises security questions for U.S. troops." ... "One congressman estimated 50 percent of the equipment from Fort Hood goes through the ports of Beaumont and Corpus Christi to Iraq. The Department of Defense said those figures were still being calculated, but that there is no reason to be alarmed." -By Steve Quinn with contributions by Wendy Benjaminson, Liz Austin, April Castro, and Suzanne Gamboa -AP via -DallasNews.com
US - United Arab Emirates - Water - Hurricane Katrina - Government - Money - "UAE gave $100 million for Katrina relief." ... "The United Arab Emirates gave the Bush administration $100 million to help victims of Hurricane Katrina weeks before a state-owned company there sought U.S. approval for its ports deal." ... "Robert Kimmitt, deputy secretary at the Treasury Department, told senators Thursday that Dubai Ports World first approached U.S. officials Oct. 17 to discuss a proposed purchase of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which runs significant operations at six large U.S. ports." ... "The United Arab Emirates sent its $100 million Katrina donation on Sept. 21 using an electronic transfer to an account at the State Department, the White House said." -By Ted Bridis -AP via -SeattlePI

20060223

US - United Arab Emirates - Political - Business - Texas - Kuwait - Saudi Arabia - Qatar - "UAE gave $1 million to Bush library." ... "A sheik from the United Arab Emirates contributed at least $1 million to the Bush Library Foundation, which established the George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University in College Station." ... "The UAE owns Dubai Port Co., which is taking operations from London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which operates six U.S. ports. A political uproar has ensued over the deal, which the White House approved without congressional oversight." ... "Other Arab donors include the state of Kuwait, the Bandar bin Sultan family [of Saudi Arabia], the Sultanate of Oman, King Hassan II of Morocco and the amir of Qatar." -By Wendy Benjaminson -AP via -HoustonChronicle.com

20060222

US - United Arab Emirates - Government - Transportation - Company - New York - New Orleans - Louisiana - Maryland - Terrorism - "Bush Threatens Veto Against Bid To Stop Port Deal: State-Run Arab Firm Poses No Threat, President Says Amid Bipartisan Criticism." ... "Facing a sharp bipartisan backlash, Bush took the unusual step of summoning reporters to the front of Air Force One to condemn efforts to block a firm [Dubai Ports World] from the United Arab Emirates from purchasing the rights to manage ports that include those in New York and New Orleans [Louisiana]." ... "The Bush administration recently approved the sale of a London-based company that currently manages the ports to state-run Dubai Ports World. The deal has raised alarms on Capitol Hill and with the Republican governors of Maryland and New York. Critics note that the United Arab Emirates has been a home base for terrorists." ... "The federal government has approval rights over business transactions with national security implications. In this case, Dubai Ports World would handle shipping arrivals, departures, unloading at the docks and many security-related functions. The federal government would oversee those security operations." -By Jim VandeHei and Jonathan Weisman with contributions by Matthew Mosk -WashingtonPost
US - United Arab Emirates - Government - Transportation - Politics - "White House Refuses to Back Down on UAE Ports." ... "DOBBS: President Bush's family and members of the Bush administration have long-standing business connections with the United Arab Emirates, and those connections are raising new concerns and questions tonight in some quarters about why the president is defying his very own party leadership and his party in defending the Dubai port deal." ... "Christine Romans reports."

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"CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The oil-rich United Arab Emirates is a major investor in The Carlyle Group, the private equity investment firm where President Bush's father once served as senior adviser and is a who's who of former high-level government officials. Just last year, Dubai International Capital, a government-backed buyout firm, invested in an $8 billion Carlyle fund." ... "Another family connection, the president's brother, Neil Bush, has reportedly received funding for his educational software company from the UAE investors. A call to his company was not returned." ... "Then there is the cabinet connection. Treasury Secretary John Snow was chairman of railroad company CSX/. After he left the company for the White House, CSX sold its international port operations to Dubai Ports World for more than a billion dollars." ... "In Connecticut today, Snow told reporters he had no knowledge of that CSX sale. "I learned of this transaction probably the same way members of the Senate did, by reading about it in the newspapers."" ... "Another administration connection, President Bush chose a Dubai Ports World executive to head the U.S. Maritime Administration. David Sanborn, the former director of Dubai Ports' European and Latin American operations, he was tapped just last month to lead the agency that oversees U.S. port operations."

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"DOBBS:" ... "The United Arab Emirates not only has friends in high places in government, it also has high-powered lobbying connections. This oil- rich nation has been lavishing hundreds of thousands of dollars on K Street, lobbying friends to push its point of view and its goals. One of those friends we found out today is none other than Senator Dole, former Senator Dole."

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US - United Arab Emirates - Water - Transportation - Nuclear - Terrorism - "FACTBOX-UAE in focus amid port security concerns." ... "The planned management takeover by state-backed Dubai Ports World of several major U.S. seaports is raising national security concerns among U.S. lawmakers, even as top administration officials defend the United Arab Emirates as a strong ally in the war on terrorism." ... "* The International Atomic Energy Agency has said Dubai, a member of the United Arab Emirates, was the headquarters of the nuclear black market run by disgraced Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. The Khan network supplied centrifuge technology to countries including Libya and North Korea." -Reuters

20060216

US - World - Water - Transportation - Nuclear - Terrorism - Politics - "White House Defends Port Sale to Arab Co.." ... "The Bush administration on Thursday rebuffed criticism about potential security risks of a $6.8 billion sale that gives a company in the United Arab Emirates control over significant operations at six major American ports." ... "Four senators and three House members asked the administration Thursday to reconsider its approval. The lawmakers contended the UAE is not consistent in its support of U.S. terrorism-fighting efforts." ... "U.S. lawmakers said the UAE was an important transfer point for shipments of smuggled nuclear components sent to Iran, North Korea and Libya by a Pakistani scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan. They also said the UAE was one of only three countries to recognize the now-toppled Taliban as Afghanistan's legitimate government." ... "Critics also have cited the UAE's history as an operational and financial base for the hijackers who carried out the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001." (1, 2) -By Ted Bridis and Devlin Barrett -AP via -WashingtonPost

20060212

US - United Arab Emirates - Water - Transportation - Terrorism - New York - New-Jersey - Maryland - Louisiana - Florida - Pennsylvania - "United Arab Emirates Firm May Oversee 6 U.S. Ports." ... "A company in the United Arab Emirates is poised to take over significant operations at six American ports as part of a corporate sale, leaving a country with ties to the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers with influence over a maritime industry considered vulnerable to terrorism." ... "The $6.8 billion sale could be approved Monday and would affect commercial port operations in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore [Maryland], New Orleans [Louisiana], Miami [Florida] and Philadelphia [Pennsylvania]." -By Ted Bridis -AP via -WashingtonPost

20020923

- "USA addresses basing options in Gulf region." ... "As the UN endeavours to pursue a diplomatic initiative to resolve the 'Iraqi problem' – ostensibly through a possible new resolution on the scope of weapons inspections in Iraq – the administration of US President George Bush renewed its determination to employ a military option to realise its goal of 'regime change' in Baghdad." ... "As JDW went to press, Bush announced on 18 September that the White House would draft a Congressional resolution by 22 September authorising the use of force against Iraq." ... "In the interim, US Department of Defense (DoD) and armed forces planners are addressing the logistical issues of a likely assault on Iraq, and preparing contingency plans for pre-positioning naval assets, personnel and materiel in the Gulf region. Washington has also secured the right to use bases in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and the United Arab Emirates." -By Robin Hughes -Jane's/Defence/Weekly

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Country name:

conventional long form: United Arab Emirates
conventional short form: none
local long form: Al Imarat al Arabiyah al Muttahidah
local short form: none
former: Trucial Oman, Trucial States
abbreviation: UAE

Government type: federation with specified powers delegated to the UAE federal government and other powers reserved to member emirates
Capital: Abu Dhabi
Background: "The Trucial States of the Persian Gulf coast granted the UK control of their defense and foreign affairs in 19th century treaties. In 1971, six of these states - Abu Zaby, 'Ajman, Al Fujayrah, Ash Shariqah, Dubayy, and Umm al Qaywayn - merged to form the United Arab Emirates (UAE). They were joined in 1972 by Ra's al Khaymah. The UAE's per capita GDP is on par with those of leading West European nations. Its generosity with oil revenues and its moderate foreign policy stance have allowed the UAE to play a vital role in the affairs of the region."

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