We should unite with libs and take to the streets on Port issue!

[dilloduck]

Its a sad, bitter truth. Are YOU willing to put the lives of millions of Americans in the hand of a non-American Arab?

Gimme a break.

Most of these guys are either Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah or Al-Qaeda. From Saudi to UAE to Egypt. That's the harsh truth.

 

[nbdysfu]

Its a sad, bitter truth. Are YOU willing to put the lives of millions of Americans in the hand of a non-American Arab?

Gimme a break.

Most of these guys are either Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah or Al-Qaeda. From Saudi to UAE to Egypt. That's the harsh truth.

Please note the following:

There seems to be some anger that a Company based in the United Arab Ererates will be Operating some Ports in the US. This is a perfect example of how people today go running off their mouth without knowing any facts about a situation.

For starters, lets take a look at the management of this Corporation:

Management Team

Mohammed Sharaf Chief Executive Officer - Arab/Muslim


Mr. Sharaf has more than 18 years of expertise in the transport and logistics industry. He has worked in the company since 1992, holding such diverse roles as Assistant Customer Service Manager, Commercial Director, Deputy Managing Director, and Managing Director before being named CEO in 2005.

Edward H. Bilkey Chief Operating Officer (retiring) - American

Ted has over thirty years of diverse experience in the transportation industry. He has served as the President of Norton Lilly & Co., a premier shipping agency in the United States. Mr. Bilkey was instrumental in the development of China Ocean Shipping Company’s services to the United States after the opening of China in the 1980s. He also served as Vice President of Maher Terminals in the Port of New York, one of the major US Terminal Operators.

Anil Wats Chief Operating Officer - ??

Anil Wats is the Managing Director, Asia and Australia for DP World. He has 26 years of experience in the international Shipping and Logistics industry. After graduating with a degree in Business Management, Mr. Wats started his career with Sea Land Service, Inc. and over a period of 21years achieved the position of VP and CEO responsible for the group activities covering the Middle East and Subcontinent. Prior to this position, Mr. Wats served as the VP-General Manager for the Mediterranean region.

Following the acquisition of Sealand by Maersk, Mr. Wats was CEO for the A.P. Moller group activities for Indonesia which included Maersk Sealand, various logistics companies and other business entities. He was also on the Board of Directors for Thailand, Taiwan and Asia Logistics in addition to being an active member on various global committees based at the Maersk headquarters in Copenhagen. He joined DP World in December 2003 responsible for business development in Asia and the Middle East and as Global Commercial Director at DP World, Dubai.

George Dalton General Counsel - American

George Dalton is General Counsel for DP World. Mr. Dalton has over 25 years of legal experience with an extensive background in corporate, financing and international transactions. At DP World he manages and oversees all legal matters. Mr. Dalton joined CSX World Terminals in 1999 as Vice President and General Counsel. Previously, he was with Sea-Land beginning in 1995 as counsel to the North America Terminal Operating Group and the Americas Division which covered activities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to joining Sea-Land, he was a partner in the New York City maritime firm of Kirlin, Campbell & Keating until 1987 when he became a founding partner of Maddy, Dalton & Lion which focused on international transactions and corporate matters. Mr. Dalton has a juris doctorate from Fordham University School of Law in New York and is a graduate of Fordham University. He is a member of several legal associations.

Joost Kruijning Senior Vice President Operations - Netherlands

While attending the Maritime Institute in his hometown of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Mr Kruijning started his shipping career in 1988 by joining the Sea-Land Service Inc. Operations Department at their Rotterdam Container facility. During his 13-year tenure with Sea-Land Service Inc., he was closely involved with the development and start-up operations of the Sea-Land Delta Terminal Project, the first semi-automated container terminal in the Ports Industry. This was followed by assignments in Russia as Port Manager - St.Petersburg and the Sultanate of Oman as Terminal Operations Manager - Salalah Port Services Inc., before joining Dubai Ports International in 2001 as Senior Manager – International Port Operations.

Matt Leech Head of Business Development - American

Matthew Leech is Head of Business Development, for DP World. Mr. Leech has over 14 years of experience in the finance and container transportation industries. At DP World, he is responsible for global new business development activities. Prior to acquisition of CSX World Terminals by DP World, Mr. Leech served in a similar role as Vice President, Operations and Development, where he has led many of CSXWT’s key expansion initiatives including the acquisition of terminal facilities in Korea, China and Venezuela in addition to managing terminals in Australia, Germany, Venezuela and Russia. Mr. Leech also held the position of Director, Strategic Planning and Infrastructure Development, where he was responsible for leading the global strategic planning and infrastructure development activities, and the position of Director, Project Analysis for CSX World Terminals. Mr. Leech joined Sea-Land Service in 1995 and held various geographic positions in the Strategic Planning group focusing on network planning, alliance management and business analysis. Prior to joining Sea-Land, he held progressive positions in the commercial real estate group of a large financial institution based in Washington, DC. Mr. Leech received a BA in economics from Georgetown University and an MBA with a finance focus from the University of Maryland.

Michael Moore Senior Vice President Commercial - American

Michael brings with him over 20 years of expertise in the transportation industry, having started as a management trainee in the trucking industry in the US and then moving to Sea-Land Service, Inc. in 1984. His broad background experience in container shipping spans terminal operations, sales, logistics, pricing and trade management. In 1999 he joined Maersk, where he served as the Vice President of Global Sales in Europe for 6 years

Vijay Sharma Chief Financial Officer - Indian

Mr. Sharma joined the DP World team in early 2005 as Director Finance. A banker by background, Vijay has had a wide range of experience in all aspects of wholesale Banking - Corporate Banking, International Finance and Investment Banking in both developed and developing markets. Beginning his career with Grindlays bank in India, his twenty three years as a banker has seen him live and work in India, Africa and more recently with the ANZ Investment Bank in London as Director, Global Corporate Finance covering the Middle East and South Asia.

Yuvraj NarayanSenior Vice President,Corporate Strategy - ?

Mr Yuvraj Narayan, Senior Vice President , Corporate Strategy, DP World, is a qualified Chartered Accountant with more than 13 years experience in International Corporate and Project Finance with the ANZ Group between 1984 to1997. He was the Head of Corporate and Project Finance for South Asia before moving as Chief Financial Officer of Salalah Port Services Co. SAOG. This Company was the Concessionaire for the Management and Operation of the new Container Terminal in the Port of Salalah.

Tell me how this management team team represents a threat? All of these people are professionals with years/decades of experience. This management team looks very similar to what you would find in most any International Corporation based in the US. This is probably even more American than many.
http://fredfryinternational.blogspot.com/

That's some hardcore Hallib- er, Taliban right there! :cof:

 

[Annie]

Please note the following:



That's some hardcore Hallib- er, Taliban right there! :cof:

Schumer is all for Halliburton if qualified:
See the video:

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004606.htm

 

[nbdysfu]

The whole process was done the way all of these transactions are handled. Nothing more secret than it has ever been done before. The politicians who need some leverage hopped on this issue but what's new? If Bush is gonna throw everything up for debate NOTHING would ever happen or it would be delayed SOOOOOOO long that the dems may have a stronger bargaining position by the time it gets resolved. I say strike while the iron is hot. If nothing you do is right by the opposition, why even try to appease them?

Yeah I doubt this is as much bush being "secret squirrel" as it is Hillary and Chuck saving face in front of their constituents after having dropped the ball on participating in the debate of wether to allow the transactions when they could have through the proper avenues of power.

 

[NATO AIR]

Please note the following:



That's some hardcore Hallib- er, Taliban right there! :cof:

Wow. You certainly proved me wrong. Tell you what buddy, do you have the employment rolls of the company... all the managers? all the supervisors? all the security heads?

You will find that most of them who are Arab are related to Al-Qaeda tied groups, the Muslim Brotherhood or Hezbollah.

Keep in mind that if I were to crosscheck all the organizations they belong to, donate to and the mosque they attend, I would be bound to find individuals with ties to these groups, if not the very individual in question.

You're defending an indefensible politically correct position, the kind that has been costing human lives for the past twenty years.

Those days are thankfully over. The ignorant Muslim masses in Europe, the Middle East and Asia proved it for us, as well as the countless investigations by the FBI and Interpol over the past four years that have shown the extent of terrorist and terrorist sympathizer inflitration in organizations, businesses and mosques throughout America, Europe and the Middle East.

 

[NATO AIR]

Yeah I doubt this is as much bush being "secret squirrel" as it is Hillary and Chuck saving face in front of their constituents after having dropped the ball on participating in the debate of wether to allow the transactions when they could have through the proper avenues of power.

and Bush, with his mouth on Saudi cock, is just as suspect as the rest of them.

How am I going to trust leaders who refuse to see who are our enemies are? Who cower before the real fight?

Hilary and Chuck are no better, they're out there doing fundraisers for Palestinian groups and terrorist sympathizer organizations like CAIR.

 

[dilloduck]

Schumer is all for Halliburton if qualified:
See the video:

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004606.htm

too damn funny-----if Bush pulls off the old bait and switch routine here I'm gonna die laughing !!!!!

 

[Annie]

too damn funny-----if Bush pulls off the old bait and switch routine here I'm gonna die laughing !!!!!

has to do with what? Other than trying to get you gravitas on the boards?

 

[Annie]

Who does GW think is †he enemy? It's not 'us.'

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004616.htm

Now, we might wonder who he's marching to...

BUSH DIGS IN
By Michelle Malkin · February 21, 2006 03:50 PM

Via Breitbart/AP:


President Bush said Tuesday that the deal allowing an Arab company to take over six major U.S. seaports should go forward and that he would veto any congressional effort to stop it.

"After careful review by our government, I believe the transaction ought to go forward," Bush told reporters who had traveled with him on Air Force One to Washington. "I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a Great British company. I am trying to conduct foreign policy now by saying to the people of the world, `We'll treat you fairly.'"

More from Bloomberg News.

Bush says it would "send the wrong message" to the UAE if the deal is delayed. What about the message it sends to Americans who are simply asking for greater assurances that the transfer was reviewed thoroughly by officials without conflicts of interest?

Allah Pundit, less tactful, e-mails: "Has he lost his damned mind?"

Reader Brian L.:

He says he'll veto any congressional effort to stop the deal. Now, he decides to veto something. Not Campaign Finance Reform. Not immense pork barrel spending.

I'd call his bluff if I were a leader in Congress.

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[rtwngAvngr]

too damn funny-----if Bush pulls off the old bait and switch routine here I'm gonna die laughing !!!!!

NO shit. What genius! DOn't throw me in that briar patch. Don't make me hire halliburton. Rove and Smirk did it again!

 

[nbdysfu]

Schumer is all for Halliburton if qualified:
See the video:

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004606.htm

Which makes me question how he differentiates Halliburton Management from DPR Management. DPR is UAE government owned yet appears not to be run by fanatics. What's the big deal?
UAE's ownership [lease?] of the company is the only thing that will not be American. Half the managers are American or non-Arabic. Everyone on the shore, all the dockworkers will be American. Laws will remain american. Police and Coast Guard will remain American. Seagulls, American.
Even if DPR was managed by 8 resurrected Qusay Husseins, what could they do with that?

 

[Annie]

Which makes me question how he differentiates Halliburton Management from DPR Management. DPR is UAE government owned yet appears not to be run by fanatics. What's the big deal?
UAE's ownership of the company is the only thing that will not be American. Half the managers are American or non-Arabic. Everyone on the shore, all the dockworkers will be American. Laws will remain american. Police and Coast Guard will remain American. Seagulls, American.
Even if DPR was managed by 8 resurrected Qusay Husseins, what could they do with that?

On at least 2 threads I've made my concerns clear.

 

[dilloduck]

has to do with what? Other than trying to get you gravitas on the boards?

I'll explain it to you ------you REALLY want Haliburton to get the contract---can you really expect THAT to fly?---hell no----you ok the UAE figuring they ain't too bad AND if the dems blow sky high you fall back on the all-american halliburton---
(gravitas?? )

 

[rtwngAvngr]

I say let's screw all this outsourcing right now. of everykind. Let's take all the americans jobs and gouge them on all the crap of the world at the same time. Let's make them pay for the drug research for the entire world while we're at it. Look at those guilty little white people running on their little habitrail with their adorable little protestant work ethic.

 

[NATO AIR]

Which makes me question how he differentiates Halliburton Management from DPR Management. DPR is UAE government owned yet appears not to be run by fanatics. What's the big deal?
UAE's ownership [lease?] of the company is the only thing that will not be American. Half the managers are American or non-Arabic. Everyone on the shore, all the dockworkers will be American. Laws will remain american. Police and Coast Guard will remain American. Seagulls, American.
Even if DPR was managed by 8 resurrected Qusay Husseins, what could they do with that?

Vital security information could be leaked. False ID cards manufactured from the inside.

I'm not defending Haliburton, KBR, etc. They've defrauded us out of billions of dollars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.

But I am saying, homeland security is absolutely not to be taken lightly. I don't trust a Saudi company, a UAE company, etc etc. No way. I wouldn't trust a British company. It needs to be American. We don't need to be outsourcing the ownership of our security.

I'm not normally an opponent of outsourcing or foreign investment, but this is definitely the one area where this cannot happen.

 

[Annie]

I'll explain it to you ------you REALLY want Haliburton to get the contract---can you really expect THAT to fly?---hell no----you ok the UAE figuring they ain't too bad AND if the dems blow sky high you fall back on the all-american halliburton---
(gravitas?? )

Go back over the past week, ME 'ok the UAE?' Give it a rest.

 

[dilloduck]

Go back over the past week, ME 'ok the UAE?' Give it a rest.

no no---read again-----BUSH oks the UAE
I know how much you hate Arabs

 

[nbdysfu]

and Bush, with his mouth on Saudi cock, is just as suspect as the rest of them.
How am I going to trust leaders who refuse to see who are our enemies are? Who cower before the real fight?

Hilary and Chuck are no better, they're out there doing fundraisers for Palestinian groups and terrorist sympathizer organizations like CAIR.

ooh, please don't provide a link to that one :teeth: Hillary and chuck are drumming up support for the next elections, and they're trying to do it by throwing the 'pre-911 mentality meme' at republican leadership on a non-issue. In fact they remain far worse in seeing who the real enemy is.

 

[dilloduck]

Vital security information could be leaked. False ID cards manufactured from the inside.

I'm not defending Haliburton, KBR, etc. They've defrauded us out of billions of dollars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.

But I am saying, homeland security is absolutely not to be taken lightly. I don't trust a Saudi company, a UAE company, etc etc. No way. I wouldn't trust a British company. It needs to be American. We don't need to be outsourcing the ownership of our security.

I'm not normally an opponent of outsourcing or foreign investment, but this is definitely the one area where this cannot happen.

Well----convince everyone we need Halliburton !!! Good luck!

 

[Annie]

no no---read again-----BUSH oks the UAE
I know how much you hate Arabs

Not close to how much you hate Jews.