[Mb-civic] NYTimes.com: Despite Fears, a Dubai Company Will Help Run Ports in New York

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[N.B. A companion piece follows.] It would admittedly be "racist" (or at least wrong) to assume that simply because the company is owned and run by Arabs that that automatically means there is a danger here: it essentially assumes that "all Arabs are terrorists." Still, there is at least some cause for concern with respect to the way this was handled - which is alot like the way the no-bid contracts for Iraq were handled, favoring Halliburton, Bechtel and the Carlyle Group. Peace.


NEW YORK REGION | February 17, 2006
Despite Fears, a Dubai Company Will Help Run Ports in New York
By PATRICK McGEEHAN
The Bush administration dismissed security concerns of local officials about the deal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/17/nyregion/17ports.html?ex=1140843600&en=165b5fdf2185f875&ei=5070&emc=eta1



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