Camel beauty pageant to be held in UAE

If you happen to own an attractive camel and think that yours is the best looking camel out there, then head on over to the United Arab Emirates for the annual camel beauty contest. I have to wonder what the camels...

port attacked by Al Qaeda last year

The area of the port near the warehouses was sealed off by security forces.

House panel votes to kill ports deal

The House committee action was the first move by Congress to address widespread anger in both parties on the ports deal.

United Arab Emirates had ties to Saddam

Twenty UAE firms are suspected of having acted as intermediaries for companies in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The UAE was a transit area for Iraq's prohibited goods, such as rocket fuel ingredients.

DP World Abandons Effort to Take Over Port Operations

DP World will sell its leases on the U.S. terminal operations "to a U.S. entity".

Was the whole thing a sucker-punch to get Halliburton the ports deal?

Plan is now to transfer operations of American ports to a U.S. "entity".

House panel rejects deal with Dubai ports company

"One of the most vulnerable situations facing America is our ports of entry" said Rep. Bill Young, R-Fla.

Judge to hear New York and New Jersey port lawsuit

The lawsuit focuses on a 30-year-lease signed in the year 2000.

Florida port plan to block security risk vendors & operators

A majority of both Democrats and Republicans have agreed to give the state a say over who operates ports in Florida.

Congress poised to scuttle UAE deal for ports

No government should be allowed to control U.S. ports.

individuals with ties to terrorist groups have arrived in UAE within the last...

Just think what could happen in any of these other ports. The techniques required to smuggle nuclear material are no different from those required to smuggle cigarettes

GOP Fears Race With Democrats Over Ports

If Republicans only make a statement, without interfering with the DP World takeover, Democrats will campaign on the issue of national security.

as recently as last year UAE violated the anti-boycott law

UAE demanded that American companies prove that goods entering their territory were not of Israeli origin.

National Defense Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2006

This is a bill being submitted by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.  If this bill becomes law, only American companies will be allowed to run U.S. ports.

House GOP to Try to Block Ports Deal

"We want to make sure that the security of our ports are in America's hands" said Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif. I agree, nobody has yet given a good reason for American ports to be out of the hands of Americans. Copy & Click this...

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