Dubai grinds toward (US) port sale...to BinLaden Family?

[elehhhhna]

News blackout only says the sale is "pending". To whom, you ask? A "US entity". If that's Carlyle Group, the OBL famiy will have a stake in our ports. If you find any info (dammned unlikely, imo), please post it here.

10/7:
Dubai grinds toward port sale,Five to eight firms participating in final round of bidding

It has been six months since a Dubai company said it would sell its stake in U.S. ports to appease lawmakers in Washington, but Dubai Ports World says it may need another month or more to identify a buyer.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-bz.dubai07oct07,0,4104650.story?coll=bal-business-headlines

10/7:
... The outcry led the Dubai company, Dubai Ports World, to promise it would sell the US operations to an American company. The sale is pending.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061002.IBPORTS02/TPStory/Business

[NVMojo]

1. the terrorism joke on Americans continues ...

[MADem]

2. Poppy Bush is going to participate in some fancy-schmancy meeting

in Dubai next month, one of those "pay to play" and "see and be seen" con games where wealthy, lazy attendees pay a bundle to listen to some lame lectures and get their pic taken with famous folk...I saw an ad for it at Al Jazeerah....

[elehhhhna]

3. so we don't care about those 21 (yes, 21, not 6) ports anymore, then?