acushla
02-20-2006, 11:09 AM
If this doesn't smack you in the face and make you wonder what the hell is really going on in the US...then I doubt if anything would.
WASHINGTON — A company in the United Arab Emirates is poised to take over significant operations at six American ports as part of a corporate sale, leaving a country with ties to the Sept. 11 hijackers with influence over a maritime industry considered vulnerable to terrorism.
Full (?) story here: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3652381.html
WASHINGTON — A company in the United Arab Emirates is poised to take over significant operations at six American ports as part of a corporate sale, leaving a country with ties to the Sept. 11 hijackers with influence over a maritime industry considered vulnerable to terrorism.
Full (?) story here: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3652381.html