United Arab Emirates donated at least $1 million to Bush Sr. library

[rainbow4321]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8FV8OQGN.html

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 Ports World, which is taking operations from London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which operates six U.S. ports.

The donations were made in the early 1990s for the library, which houses the papers of former President George Bush, the current president's father. The list of donors names Sheik Zayed Bin Sultan al Nahyan and the people of the United Arab Emirates as one donor in the $1 million or more category.

The hundreds of large donors include longtime Bush associates, including Vice President Dick Cheney and other administration officials as well as business titans — such as Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay — and big Republican donors.

Other Arab donors include the state of Kuwait, the Bandar bin Sultan family, the Sultanate of Oman, King Hassan II of Morocco and the amir of Qatar. The former Korean prime minister and China also gave tens of thousands of dollars to the library.

[lauren_victoria]

1. well...

that is very interesting.
:o
Bush seems to have ties to everything controversial.