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Old 03-10-2006, 08:19 AM   #13
jaguar
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Any of you been to the UAE? Know anything about it? The UAE is about as western-minded as possible, they saw where things were going to go and invested all that oil revenue in a new Singapore, an open, tolerant, business-friendly city with seriously world-class facilities and world-class standards across the board. I mean if glatt thinks their health&safety he should start looking at accidents closer to home.

If someone wants to do some wetwork though a US port they'd have a far easier time just blackmailing p& bribing people as spies traditionally do that buying bloody P&O. What amuses me is that this deal, is in it's full scope, has so little to do with US ports. DPW runs ports all over the place and does so very well. DPW is government owned because the government has been pumping all those oil revenues into building private industry, it's not even some kind of state-run strategic thing. Flown Emirates? Doubt you feared being blown out of the sky while enjoying probably the best economy class around for often the lowest fear. If it was a European company noone would have batted an eyelid. Pathetic xenophobia. Excellent way to ostracise probably the most progressive of ME states.
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