The Houses of Bush, Sabah, and Maktoum - for real

[donsu]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_527.shtml



The Bush Crime Family's close business dealings with the royal houses of Kuwait (the Sabah family) and Dubai (the Maktoum family) either borders on or is treason according to information received from U.S. military and Persian Gulf sources by WMR.

The Sabah family and their business cohorts are reportedly skimming hundreds of millions of dollars from the shipping of military materiel through Kuwait to U.S. forces in Iraq. Moreover, much of this money is being used to fund the Sunni insurgency in Iraq that is directed against U.S. troops. In 1993, former President George H. W. Bush was awarded an honorary doctorate by Kuwait University and Kuwait's highest honor, the Order of Mubarak the Great. Bush was accompanied on a Kuwait Airways flight by his sons Neil and Marvin and former Secretary of State James Baker III, former chief of staff John Sununu, and Joint Chiefs Operations Director General Thomas Kelly. After the trip Neil landed lucrative contracts with the Kuwaiti Ministry of Electricity and Water. Marvin secured defense contracts for his clients. Baker nailed down deals for Enron. To ratchet things up with Saddam, Kuwait staged a round up of some Iraqi whiskey smugglers said to be planning the assassination of the elder Bush during his visit to Kuwait. President Clinton launched a cruise missile attack on Iraq in retaliation for the phony assassination attempt.

Marvin served on the board of Securacom (renamed Stratesec), which had contracts to provide security for Dulles Airport and the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Securacom’s backers included a number of Kuwaitis through a company called KuwAm Corp (Kuwaiti-American Corp.). KuwAm also financially backed Aviation General, formerly Commander Aircraft, which brokered the sale of airplanes to the National Civil Aviation Training Organization (NCATO), located in Giza, Egypt, the hometown of lead hijacker Mohammed Atta and the only civilian pilot training school in Egypt. NCATO has a training agreement with Embry-Riddle University in Daytona Beach, Florida, the flight school that was investigated by the FBI for possibly training at least one of the 911 hijackers.

Neil also developed close connections to the Maktoum family of Dubai, the same family that has interests in the state-owned firm, Dubai Ports World, that is poised to take over the operations of six U.S. ports (New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia-Camden, Miami, New Orleans, and Baltimore) after its purchase of the British P&O Company.

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you would think the whole world would be pissed off at these corrupt, murderous men

[MADem]

1. It's just so damned OBSCENE, isn't it!!! n/t

[The_Farouk]

2. anybody worried...

That currently, many of our ports are run by Chinese companies, which as you know are controled by the Chinese government. Oh I forgot, the Chinese are not Arabs so nobody cares.

[donsu]

3. there is part of the Chinese govt. that works with the bushmilhousegang

nt

[MADem]

4. It is inappropriate, frankly for any foreign GOVERNMENT, of any stripe

to manage US assets that have national security features attached to them.

It has nothing to do with race, culture, or any of those usual hot button issues. It has everything to do with DICTATORS. Seven guys who own everything in the damn UAE own this company that is causing all the heartburn. Seven guys, who used to fund the Taliban, and were one of three governments that formally recognized them, and took their sweet time breaking off relations, too. Seven guys, whose little company transships all sorts of goodies, like heavy water and nuclear components, to places like Iran and Pakistan in violation of international treaties and agreements...seven guys, whose priority is THEIR best interests, not ours.

Please name the ports run by the Chinese. I think we'd benefit from knowing which ones, specifically, they are.

[peacetalksforall]

5. Please go further. Tell us which ones? nt

[The_Farouk]

9. Port of LA

Check out the Port of Los Angeles. 5 of the 6 container operations (they subdivide the port) are run by foreign corps. Of those several are Chinese Companies. Check out there website as well as the port of Long Beach... Dont stop there, check them all.

I used to be a policy advisor to a state legislature on security issues (radio communication, ports, first responder stuff) and I can tell you that anyone who thinks are current level of security is is safe is drinking the kool-aid. It it so bad that in fact this deal could only improve it. The UAE is more concerned with the bottom line and I can bet that there operations will be the most efficient and safe we have seen. They are into investments big time, because they know the oil win run out, so I think they have a great self-interest in maintaining as secure enviroment.

[RazzleDazzle]

10. What the fuck is that supposed to mean?

I am VERY upset that any foreign company, let alone foreign govt, has any entre to any of our ports. If you're taking offense that Americans are taking offense that an ARAB country is involved in this scandal, look again. Yes, you'll find some racism (primarily on the right), but you'll also find a whale of a lot of REASON that this particular Arab country/company shouldn't be anywhere near our ports except to run a few ships through now and then.

[peacetalksforall]

6. I think this should be kicked - the Online Journal does good work. How

do we continue to be disgusted with these people.

What is wrong with Clinton?

[AntiFascist]

13. Check out the DLC...

they see offensive measures in the ME as an opportunity as well.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. Add in the Saud family and you have the whole ball of wax. nt

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

8. Recommended.

[Disturbed]

11. The dots are connecting and lead to the...

Bush Crime Family, Haliburton and Cheney.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

12. This is from Wayne Madsen - I wouldn't use him as a primary source nt