"Dave" wrote in message
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:00:10 +0000, Peter Wiley

said:

I really can't see why you guys are getting upset.

I think most of the hysteria is fed by an underlying assumption by many
Americans that all Arabs are terrorists. They are unable or unwilling to
articulate that premise because it's un-PC to do so.

That said, the two elements that in combination give me pause are
uncertainty about how much information a port operator would have about
the
operative details of whatever security measures are adopted to safeguard
cargo, and the fact that a Dubai-based enterprise may be more vulnerable
than other enterprises might be to infiltration by people out to do us in.
The two questions are obviously inter-related.

A third question, which has not been addressed to my knowledge, is: are
there no American or non-Middle East firms that can accomplish the same job,
and if so why was the British, now UAE, firm chosen over the others? This
is a business question, not related to the two questions you posed above.

Max