I was an area that was right by the ocean, with sand dunes and a long pathway where people could walk out into the water - like a narrow Peninsula.

We went with the tourists and while we were out there, a huge extra high wave came in and washed over everyone. We were able to hang onto tall reeds and let the wave go by. Then we hurried back to dry land before another wave came.

We went back to the house and various people were gathering . Some were cooking, some were just sitting around talking. 

One older man had a coin collection. I found two dimes on the floor, each one in its own plastic case. I handed them back to the old man. He said, "Thank you so much. Do you know what the old man and the little boy are worth?"  (referring to the dimes) 

I said, "No!"

He said, "They are worth several hundred dollars each." 

I was amazed and he sat there with 1/2 cup of them, treasuring his dimes.

We were sitting at a table, and I took an envelope out of my purse that I hadn't seen before. In bright red ink or blood, was written 

"10-31-05 - 
LARGE EXPLOSION ON THE DOCKS."

I didn't want to frighten anyone, so I didn't say anything. I stuffed the envelop back in my purse.

A few minutes later, we went outside and were standing near the building when I saw a military flying boat. The men were in uniform and were all highly visible in the convertible-type flying platform (similar to a helicopter)  They were all heavily armed, carrying weapons and every was silver colored.

They looked like they were looking for someone and I did want it to be me, so I quickly went under a porch overhang and when the swung around at the end of their flight path at the ocean's edge, I quickly ducked back into the house.

One of the guys in the building had a religious radio show going on, warning people of what was coming. I could hear him in the next room, but I didn't tell him about my prediction for 10-31-05 for the explosion on the docks. It was too non-specific as they say. 

I was getting late in the day by then, and as we were leaving, one of the older men  said to me, "Thank you for what you do. We really appreciate it."

I thanked him, and we left and I woke up as we went out the door.  
The time was 3 a.m.
Joe woke up at the same time and left the room.

DREAM #2 - I was given another envelope with red numbers: 

3-14-21   

NOTE: I think that's the time of day.

DREAM #3  - I heard a loud horn in my left ear and I saw what resembled an American Express card.  I examined the card for what it said. At the top it said,  REMEMBER THE EAST WIND

DREAM #4 - I saw what looked like an insurance card.  In the upper left hand corner, it said:

AMERICAN PENNSYLVANIA

DREAM #5 - I was walking down the street on 17th and Center, with an oblong gravy boat dish that was colored reddish brown. It had an upside-down 1/2 yellow grapefruit on top of dirt in the dish. A worm came out from under the yellow grapefruit and then a second white grub worm came out from under the yellow grapefruit. The two worms crawled around on the dirt and I became squeamish that they were there. 

Some girls walked by and laughed at me for being afraid of the worms.

Right then, the caterpillar crawled over to the edge of the dish and launched itself into the air like a missile and flew off towards my left shoulder towards the southeast. 

The other grub worm was gyrating and rolling around and doubling over in the gravy boat still, like it was highly agitated.

I was afraid to touch the worm and didn't know what to do with it.

I went to a downtown jail and met with some young men criminals there. One guy's name was TEVEO. I handed out coloring books and other fun things for the young men and made friends with them.

Later, I was walking past a gas station on the corner of 16th and Center. On the driveway was a sign that said, HAVE JOB.  TEVEO was walking up 16th street towards me so I told him to apply for the job and he got it. 

Another criminal boy I had met at the jail also came down the sidewalk towards me and I told him to go into the gas station as well and apply for a job too. 

Then I went inside and TEVEO and the other kid and some young black men were there with the boss.

I said to the boss, let me recommend these two kids. They deserve a chance.

When I walked out, someone asked me if I was afraid of the criminals. I said, "I made friends with them and gave them stuff and they trust me now. 

I then went to an apartment building where my spiritual teacher lived. I was told he lived in apartment #314. But when I said I was going up to see him, someone told me he was out on the town with another woman.

But I knew he'd be glad to see me when I arrived at his door.

I was then told by another person, "Remember to tell Mr. Gordon".

THE NEWS

Feb. 11, 2006, 10:29AM
Arab firm to oversee 6 U.S. ports

By TED BRIDIS
Associated Press

Feb. 11, 2006, 10:29AM
Arab firm to oversee 6 U.S. ports

By TED BRIDIS
Associated Press

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.

The Bush administration considers the UAE an important ally in the fight against terrorism since the suicide hijackings and is not objecting to Dubai Ports World's purchase of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co.

The $6.8 billion sale is expected to be approved Monday. The British company is the fourth largest ports company in the world and its sale would affect commercial U.S. port operations in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.

DP World said it won approval from a secretive U.S. government panel that considers security risks of foreign companies buying or investing in American industry.

The U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States "thoroughly reviewed the potential transaction and concluded they had no objection," the company said in a statement to The Associated Press.

The committee earlier agreed to consider concerns about the deal as expressed by a Miami-based company, Eller & Co., according to Eller's lawyer, Michael Kreitzer. Eller is a business partner with the British shipping giant but was not in the running to buy the ports company.

The committee, which could have recommended that President Bush block the purchase, includes representatives from the departments of Treasury, Defense, Justice, Commerce, State and Homeland Security.

The State Department describes the UAE as a vital partner in the fight against terrorism. But the UAE, a loose federation of seven emirates on the Saudi peninsula, was an important operational and financial base for the hijackers who carried out the attacks against New York and Washington, the FBI concluded.

Sen. Charles Schumer, a Democrat whose district includes the New York port, urged the administration to consider the sale carefully.

"America's busiest ports are vital to our economy and to the international economy, and that is why they remain top terrorist targets," Schumer said. "Just as we would not outsource military operations or law enforcement duties, we should be very careful before we outsource such sensitive homeland security duties."

Last month, the White House appointed a senior DP World executive, David C. Sanborn of Virginia, to be the new administrator of the Maritime Administration of the Transportation Department. Sanborn worked as DP World's director of operations for Europe and Latin America.

DP WORLD EXECUTIVE NOMINATED FOR PRESITIGOUS US GOVT POSITION Dubai, 24 January 2006: - Global ports operator DP World today welcomed news that one of its senior executives, Dave Sanborn, has been nominated by US President George W. Bush to serve as Maritime Administrator a key transportation appointment reporting directly to Norman Mineta the Secretary of Transportation and Cabinet Member. The White House has issued a statement from Washington DC announcing the nomination. The confirmation process will begin in February. Mr Sanborn currently holds the position of Director of Operations for Europe and Latin America for the Dubai-based company Mohammed Sharaf, CEO, DP World said: “While we are sorry to lose such an experienced and capable executive, it is exactly those qualities that will make Dave an effective administrator for MarAd.  We are proud of Dave’s selection and pleased that the Bush Administration found such a capable executive. We wish him all the best in his new role.” Ted Bilkey, Chief Operating Officer, DP World said: “Dave’s decades of experience in markets around the world, together with his passion for the industry and commitment to its development, will allow him to make a positive contribution to the work of the Maritime Administration. We wish him well for the future.” Mr Sanborn, a graduate of The United States Merchant Maritime Academy, joined DP World in 2005. He previously held senior roles with shipping lines CMA-CGM (Americas), APL Ltd and Sea-Land and has been based, besides the US, in Brazil, Europe, Hong Kong and Dubai during his career.  He has also served in the US Naval Reserve. Mr Sanborn is due to take up his new role based in Washington DC later in 2006.

Critics of the proposed purchase said a port operator complicit in smuggling or terrorism could manipulate manifests and other records to frustrate Homeland Security's already limited scrutiny of shipping containers and slip contraband past U.S. Customs inspectors.

"When you have a foreign government involved, you are injecting foreign national interests," Kreitzer said. "A country that may be a friend of ours today may not be on the same side tomorrow. You don't know in advance what the politics of that country will be in the future."

Shipping experts noted that many of the world's largest port companies are not based in the U.S., and they pointed to DP World's strong economic interest in operating ports securely and efficiently.

"Does this pose a national security risk? I think that's pushing the envelope," said Stephen E. Flynn, who studies maritime security at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations. "It's not impossible to imagine one could develop an internal conspiracy, but I'd have to assign it a very low probability."

Changing management over the U.S. ports "doesn't offer al-Qaida any opportunities it doesn't have now," said James Lewis, who worked with the U.S. committee at the State and Commerce departments. "It's in Dubai's interest to make sure this runs well. There is strong economic incentive to be sure these worries never materialize."

Flynn and others said even under foreign control, U.S. ports will continue to be run by unionized American employees. "You're not going have a bunch of UAE citizens working the docks," Flynn said. "They're longshoremen, vested in high-paying jobs. Most of them are Archie Bunker-kind of Americans."

Peninsular and Oriental and DP World set approval by the U.S. security committee as a condition for the sale. In regulatory papers, the companies said either the committee must agree not to formally investigate the purchase or Bush must not move to block the sale for national security purposes.

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the FBI has said the money for the strikes was transferred to the hijackers primarily through the UAE's banking system, and much of the operational planning for the attacks took place inside the UAE.

Many of the hijackers traveled to the U.S. through the UAE. Also, the hijacker who steered United Airlines flight into the World Trade Center's south tower, Marwan al-Shehhi, was born in the UAE.

After the attacks, U.S. Treasury Department officials complained about a lack of cooperation by the UAE and other Arab countries trying to track Osama bin Laden's bank accounts.

FROM: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3652381.html

Arab-owned American ports?

February 15, 2006

Some of the country's busiest ports -- New York, New Jersey, Baltimore and three others -- are about to become the property of the United Arab Emirates. Do we really want our major ports in the hands of an Arab country where al Qaeda recruits, travels and wires money?

    The U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment, a Treasury Department-dominated group which reviews foreign investments, allows such purchases. The committee approved a $6.8 billion transaction between the ports' current British owners and Dubai Ports World, a government-owned United Arab Emirates firm. The United Arab Emirates was home to Marwan al-Shehhi, a September 11 hijacker; the country is a transit point for al Qaeda, including several other September 11 hijackers; al Qaeda's financing activities have involved the UAE; al Qaeda finds sympathizers there with ease, as it does in other Arab countries.

    The Bush administration calls the United Arab Emirates an ally in the war on terror. But the UAE plays the same game Saudi Arabia does of quelching terrorists at home and turning a blind eye everywhere else.

    It would be easy to caricature this sale: The purchase doesn't entail young Arab firebrands replacing longshoremen, nor would it displace American ownership. The storied British firm that currently owns them, the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., probably isn't much better equipped against terrorist infiltration than Dubai Ports World. But then, the poor state of port security is precisely the point.

    We should be improving port security in an age of terrorism, not outsourcing decisions to the highest bidder. The ports are thought to be the country's weakest homeland-security link, with good reason. Only a fraction of the nation's maritime cargoes are inspected.

    This deal appears to be all about money. Dubai Ports World is "a business and its money is the same color as everyone else's, only it's got more of it," one banker told the Baltimore Sun. Where does the money come from? As a private company, Dubai Ports World's claim of 20 percent annual growth since 2001 is all but unverifiable, and its inner workings opaque. For all we know, Dubai Ports World is an undeclared arm of a foreign government.

    The root question is this: Why should the United States have to gamble its port security on whether a subsidiary of the government of the United Arab Emirates happens to remain an antiterrorism ally?

    The Committee on Foreign Investment is the wrong place for this decision to be made; it appears to be little more than a rubber stamp.

    Sen. Chuck Schumer, New York Democrat, among others, is asking tough questions about this deal. For once, we agree with him: President Bush should overrule the committee to reject this deal. If that doesn't happen, Congress should take action. The country's ports should not be owned by foreign governments; much less governments whose territories are favored by al Qaeda.
    
FROM: http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060214-102147-5104r.htm

    Thursday 16 February 2006

    Washington - The Bush administration on Thursday rebuffed criticism about potential security risks of a $6.8 billion sale that gives a company in the United Arab Emirates control over significant operations at six major American ports.

    Lawmakers asked the White House to reconsider its earlier approval of the deal.

    The sale to state-owned Dubai Ports World was "rigorously reviewed" by a US committee that considers security threats when foreign companies seek to buy or invest in American industry, National Security Council spokesman Frederick Jones said.

    The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, run by the Treasury Department, reviewed an assessment from US intelligence agencies. The committee's 12 members agreed unanimously the sale did not present any problems, the department said.

    "We wanted to look at this one quite closely because it relates to ports," Stewart Baker, an assistant secretary in the Homeland Security Department, told The Associated Press. "It is important to focus on this partner as opposed to just what part of the world they come from. We came to the conclusion that the transaction should not be halted."

    The unusual defense of the secretive committee, which reviews hundreds of such deals each year, came in response to criticism about the purchase of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co.

    The world's fourth-largest ports company runs commercial operations at shipping terminals in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.

    Four senators and three House members asked the administration Thursday to reconsider its approval. The lawmakers contended the UAE is not consistent in its support of US terrorism-fighting efforts.

    "The potential threat to our country is not imagined, it is real," Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., said in a House speech.

    The Homeland Security Department said it was legally impossible under the committee's rules to reconsider its approval without evidence DP World gave false information or withheld vital details from US officials. The 30-day window for the committee to voice objections has ended.

    DP World said it had received all regulatory approvals.

    "We intend to maintain and, where appropriate, enhance current security arrangements," the company said in a statement. "It is very much business as usual for the P&O terminals" in the United States.

    In Dubai, the UAE's foreign minister described his country as an important US ally but declined to respond directly to the concerns expressed in Washington.

    "We have worked very closely with the United States on a number of issues relating to the combat of terrorism, prior to and post Sept. 11," Sheik Abdullah Bin Zayed al-Nahyan told The Associated Press.

    US lawmakers said the UAE was an important transfer point for shipments of smuggled nuclear components sent to Iran, North Korea and Libya by a Pakistani scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan. They also said the UAE was one of only three countries to recognize the now-toppled Taliban as Afghanistan's legitimate government.

    The State Department describes the UAE as a vital partner in the fight against terrorism. Dubai's own ports have participated since last year in US efforts to detect illegal shipments of nuclear materials.

    Rep. Vito Fossella, R-N.Y., urged congressional hearings on the deal.

    "At a time when America is leading the world in the war on terrorism and spending billions of dollars to secure our homeland, we cannot cede control of strategic assets to foreign nations with spotty records on terrorism," Fossella said.

    Critics also have cited the UAE's history as an operational and financial base for the hijackers who carried out the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

    "Outsourcing the operations of our largest ports to a country with a dubious record on terrorism is a homeland security and commerce accident waiting to happen," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. "The administration needs to take another look at this deal."

    Separately, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Thursday it will conduct its own review of the deal and urged the government to defend its decision.

    In a letter to the Treasury Department, Port Authority chairman Anthony Coscia said the independent review by his agency was necessary "to protect its interests."

    The lawmakers pressing the White House to reconsider included Sens. Schumer, Tom Coburn, R-Okla., Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Reps. Foley, Fossella and Chris Shays, R-Conn.

  FROM: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021706O.shtml

FROM: http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004577.htm

Lawmakers urges White House to review Arab port takeover

Critics contend deal could affect national security

  Thursday, February 16, 2006; Posted: 12:32 p.m. EST (17:32 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. lawmakers formally asked the Bush administration Thursday to reconsider its approval of a sale giving a company in the United Arab Emirates control over significant operations at six major American ports.

The lawmakers, including four senators and three House members, sharply criticized the UAE as inconsistent in its support of U.S. anti-terrorism efforts.

They also said the country was a key transfer point for shipments of nuclear components sent to Iran, North Korea and Libya and was one of only three nations that had recognized the Taliban as Afghanistan's legitimate government.

"Outsourcing the operations of our largest ports to a country with a dubious record on terrorism is a homeland security and commerce accident waiting to happen," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York. "The administration needs to take another look at this deal."

The Bush administration defended its approval of the sale. A spokesman for the White House National Security Council, Frederick Jones, said Thursday that security implications of the deal were "rigorously reviewed."

The Associated Press reported Saturday that government-owned Dubai Ports World had won approval for the $6.8 billion deal from a secretive U.S. panel that considers security risks of foreign companies buying or investing in American industry.

Since then, a growing faction in Congress wants the White House to reconsider its approval of DP World's purchase of the London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which British shareholders approved Monday.

The British firm, the world's fourth-largest ports company, runs commercial operations at shipping terminals in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States reviewed the transaction and did not object. The committee, run by the Treasury Department, also includes officials from the departments of Defense, Justice, Commerce, State and Homeland Security.

Although it declined to comment on the committee's decision last week, the Treasury Department said Thursday the consensus of the panel's 12 members was that the sale did not present national security problems. The review included an assessment from U.S. intelligence agencies, the department said.

"Clearly no responsibility of government is more important than protecting the national security," the department said in a statement.

Critics have complained that control over port operations by DP World could endanger U.S. security. They cite the UAE's history as an operational and financial base for the hijackers who carried out the September 11, 2001, attacks against New York and Washington.

The lawmakers pressing the White House on Thursday included Sens. Schumer, Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey, and Chris Dodd, D-Connecticut, and Reps. Chris Shays, R-Connecticut, Vito Fossella, R-New York, and Mark Foley, R-Florida.

On Wednesday, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Peter King, R-New York, said he spoke to senior White House officials, whom he declined to identify, and urged them to review the purchase. King said he believed the White House took the issue "very seriously and will look into it."

Treasury Secretary John Snow, asked during a budget hearing Wednesday about the committee's approval, said he was not permitted to discuss specific transactions the panel considers.

Feb 17, 2006 2:57 pm US/Eastern

Philadelphia Port Sold To United Arab Emirates Co.

(© MMVI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

FROM: http://kyw.com/local/local_story_048145934.html

CONSPIRACY OR COINCIDENCE?
Is it a conspiracy or a coincidence? There is a long and tangled history between the Bush family and the elite of Saudi Arabia.

There are many business and connections between the Bush family and the elite of Saudi Arabia.

It begins in the 1970's in Houston, Texas, when George W. Bush was just starting out in his family's two businesses of politics and oil. The powerful - and very rich - Bin Laden family helped fund his first venture into oil.

The cozy friendship continued for decades. After a terrorist attack at a barracks in Saudi Arabia which killed 19 Americans, the bin Laden family received a multi-billion dollar contract to re-build. And incredibly, George Bush Sr. was in a business meeting at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington on the morning of September 11th with one of Osama Bin Laden's brothers.

Below is a timeline that details the relationship between the Bin Laden and Bush families that culminates in the tragic events of September 11th.

1968
George W. Bush joins the Texas Air National Guard, a coveted position that ensures he doesn’t have to serve in Vietnam. While a member of the Guard, Bush meets and befriends Jim Bath, a former Air Force pilot and budding entrepreneur.

1976
George H. W. Bush becomes director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). During his tenure, Bush helps provide training for the Saudi royal family’s palace guard, cementing a relationship that proves critical to the Bush family’s fortunes. Bush also privatizes various CIA assets, with Bath considered one of the beneficiaries because of his involvement in the aircraft business. Bath will later tell a business associate he works for the CIA and was recruited by Bush Sr.

Jim Bath is alleged to be the link between the Bin Laden and Bush families.

Salem Bin Laden, older brother to future al Qaeda leader Osama, enters into a trust agreement with Jim Bath, whereby Bath will act as the bin Laden family’s representative in North America, investing money in various business ventures. Bath also becomes the business representative of Khalid bin Mahfouz, a member of Saudi Arabia’s most powerful banking family and owners of the National Commercial Bank, the principal bank of the Saudi royal family.

1978
Charles W. “Bill” White, a former Annapolis graduate and US Navy pilot, graduates from Harvard’s business school. He is then introduced to Jim Bath who is looking for someone to manage his real estate company. Bath hires White as his partner. Money from the bin Laden and bin Mahfouz families is invested in Bath’s real estate company. Among other things, Bath buys the Saudis an airport, office and apartment buildings, and invests in Texas banks. Eventually, Salem Bin Laden and Khalid bin Mahfouz buy an enormous mansion in River Oaks, Houston’s most affluent neighborhood. Read an interview with Bill White

Bush Jr. was a young man when he received funding for his first oil venture from Jim Bath.

George W. Bush starts up an oil company in Texas called Arbusto 78. Bath will invest money from Salem bin Laden and Khalid bin Mahfouz in this new company. Bill White is told by Bath that more than $1-million of the Saudis’ money was pumped into Bush’s venture.

1979
The Carter administration, through the CIA, begins to fund the fledgling mujahadeen in Afghanistan – six months before the Soviet invasion – in the hopes of drawing the USSR into its own Vietnam.

1980
George H.W. Bush runs for the presidential nomination of the Republican Party, but loses to Ronald Reagan. He becomes Reagan’s running mate and eventual vice-president.

1981
Osama bin Laden, son of the founder of the Bin Laden Group, the largest construction company in Saudi Arabia, travels to Afghanistan to help the mujahadeen in their bloody war against the Soviet Union.

1986
Bill White and Jim Bath have a falling out. Bath then launches 28 frivolous lawsuits against White, leading to White’s financial ruin and expulsion from Houston’s business community. White fights the lawsuits, refusing to take a huge pay off to keep silent about his knowledge of Bath’s relationship to the Saudis and Bush family. Read an interview with Bill White

1987
Harken Energy, a company that George W. Bush’s failed oil companies have been folded into, receives $25-million stock offering underwritten by significant players connected to the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), a Middle Eastern banking concern. Bush is key to Harken obtaining the money.

1989
The Soviets pull out of Afghanistan after the CIA spends (US) $3-billion on the largest covert operation in its history. Osama bin Laden returns to Saudi Arabia, angry with how the Americans abandoned Afghanistan after the Soviet retreat.

Bin Mahfouz lived in Houston and had ties to both the bin Ladens and Jim Bath.

1988-92
The BCCI scandal breaks. The bank is exposed as a massive criminal enterprise, having catered, during it's history, to some of the most notorious villains of the 20th century, including Saddam Hussein, Manuel Noriega, terrorist leaders Abu Nidal, and the Medellin drug cartel, as well as for being involved in money laundering and the Iran contra scandal and for pilfering investors’ cash. Following BCCI's seizure in 1991, Khalid Bin Mahfouz (see above) was indicted in New York State on the grounds that he had withdrawn sizable investments in the bank just before it was seized. In the end, all the charges and claims were dropped after he made payments of $225 million into a Federal Reserve settlement account mainly for the benefit of depositors and creditors who had suffered losses and $245 million to BCCI's court-appointed Liquidators also for the benefit of depositors and creditors.

1991
The first Gulf War occurs, whereby George H. W. Bush is determined to push Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait to ensure the Iraqi dictator doesn’t have a stranglehold on world oil markets. Osama bin Laden urges the Saudi royal family to find an Arab solution, by raising an army on their own to fight Hussein. When the royal family invites the U.S. in to do the job instead, Bin Laden becomes disenchanted with the House of al-Saud. His anger grows when after the war the US leaves 20,000 troops behind in Saudi Arabia. Soon Bin Laden makes a deal with the Saudi royal family: he is allowed to leave the kingdom with his fortune, and will receive funding for al Qaeda from various Saudi charities and banks, but in return he must not launch attacks against the royal family. Bin Laden settles in the Sudan, aiming his ire at the US.

1992
George H. W. Bush loses to Bill Clinton. Eventually the former president becomes an adviser to the Carlyle Group, a powerful Washington-based private investment firm with interests in the defense industry. Among his duties, Bush helps strengthen Carlyle’s ties to the Saudi royal family. He will later visit Saudi Arabia and the bin Laden family compound. The bin Ladens eventually invest in the Carlyle Group. Carlyle buys a company called Vinnell Corp., which provides training to the Saudi palace guard. George W. Bush briefly sits on the board of directors of one of Carlyle’s subsidiaries.

1993
The first attack on the World Trade Centre, which is connected to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, occurs.

1994
George W. Bush becomes governor of Texas.

1995
Five American soldiers are killed in a car bomb in Saudi Arabia. The Saudis quickly execute the suspects they arrest, ignoring wishes from the FBI to interrogate them beforehand.

The Taliban come to power in Afghanistan with the backing of Pakistan’s notorious intelligence agency, the ISI.

1996
Osama bin Laden is forced to move from the Sudan to Afghanistan under pressure from the Clinton administration. Neither the US nor the Saudis make an effort to arrest him – despite the opportunity offered up to them by the Sudanese government.

June
A truck bomb blows up the al-Khobar barracks, housing US air force personnel in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 soldiers. A group called Saudi Hezbollah claims responsibility. Eventually, the Clinton administration drops the investigation because it does not want to upset relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran – the country that funds Hezbollah.

Summer
A meeting of prominent Saudis occurs in a Paris hotel. Among the attendees is the head of Saudi intelligence, Turki bin Faisal. They meet with a representative of al Qaeda and agree to extend the earlier arrangement made between the Saudi royal family and Osama bin Laden – whereby in return for cash, al Qaeda agrees not to attack inside Saudi Arabia.

The CIA produces an internal report that documents the numerous Saudi charities that are
1998
Al Qaeda makes it most audacious attack to date by blowing up US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people.

2000
January
Ziad Jarrah, pilot of Flight 93, which would crash into a field in Pennsylvania on 9/11, is stopped and interrogated at an airport in United Arab Emirates (UAE). He is returning from al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and is carrying Islamic religious material on him. The US is informed of the interrogation but not the details.

January
A high-powered meeting of al Qaeda occurs in an apartment complex in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Attending the meeting is Khalid Shaykh Mohammed, the number three man in al Qaeda and mastermind behind the 1998 US embassy attacks, and architect of the USS Cole and 9/11 attacks to come. Also at the meeting is Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, two Saudi citizens who would end up as hijackers on Flight 77, the plane that crashes into the Pentagon on 9/11.

The CIA learns about the meeting beforehand and asks the Malaysian secret police to place it under surveillance. Video footage and photographs of the dozen men in attendance are taken, though no tape recording is possible. After the meeting breaks up, Al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar fly to the US on their own passports, landing in Los Angeles. There they are met by Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi national who works for the Saudi civil aviation authority. Just prior to picking up the two would-be hijackers, Al-Bayoumi meets with a member of the Saudi consulate in LA – a man connected to terrorist activity.

Al-Bayoumi takes al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi to San Diego, puts them up in an apartment, signs a lease, holds a party for them, enrolls them in flight school and gives them money. Later, the FBI concludes that al-Bayoumi is likely a Saudi intelligence agent. Al-Bayoumi also passes on thousands of dollars to the hijackers that originate from Princess Haifa, wife of Prince Bandar Saudi ambassador to the US.

May-June
Members of the Hamburg cell, including ringleader Mohammed Atta, enter the US. They are traveling on Saudi visas, all of which contain errors on them.

September
Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar move into the home of a local imam in San Diego, Abdussattar Shaikh. The imam is an FBI informant. In fact, Shaikh holds meetings with his FBI handler while al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar sit in a room next door. Shaikh contends he was never told what mission the hijackers were on. His FBI handler, meanwhile, was never informed by his superiors to look out for al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar.

October
The USS Cole, sitting in a harbour off the coast of Yemen, is attacked by a boat laden with explosives, killing 17 sailors.

November
George W. Bush is elected president of the US in a contested election. Support for his campaign from the oil industry is generous.

2001
In the months leading up to 9/11, the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency receive a burgeoning mountain of intelligence that a terrorist attack of some magnitude, and launched by Al Qaeda, is imminent. They assume the attack will happen overseas.

January
The CIA and FBI begin to piece together the importance of the individuals who met a year earlier in Malaysia. Despite the information they have, neither al-Hazmi nor al-Mihdhar are placed on the State Department and Customs watch list.

April
Al-Hazmi is stopped for speeding in Oklahoma. He is let go because his name does not appear in the police officer’s data bank as a wanted man.

May
The CIA will later determine that Khalid Shaykh Mohammed, architect of 9/11 and al Qaeda’s other attacks, was entering the US as late as this month, despite the fact he is a well-known figure in the terrorist netherworld, his name first becoming known to the CIA as early as 1995.

June
CIA and FBI meet to talk about al-Mihdhar. But the CIA does not hand over critical information to the FBI. Again, the men are not placed on any watch list and a search for them is not initiated.

July
A Phoenix, Az.-based FBI counter-terrorism agent writes a lengthy memo in which he says it has been noticed that a high number of Arabs, possibly with connections to al Qaeda, are taking flying lessons in local flight schools. His memo is ignored by FBI headquarters.

August
President Bush receives a detailed and lengthy presidential daily briefing from the CIA in which Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda’s aim of launching an attack against the US is discussed. To this day, the Bush White House refuses to release the contents of this briefing to Congressional inquiries into 9/11.

The CIA finally puts al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar’s name on the watch lists. By then it is too late. The FBI and CIA do a limited search for the men.

Sept. 11/2001
The attack occurs. The morning of the attack George Bush Sr. is meets with members of the Carlyle Group in Washington. Bin Laden's own brother is at the meeting. Members of the Bin Laden family are allowed to leave the U.S. without questioning two days later.

WASHINGTON (Feb. 21, 2006) - Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist called Tuesday for the Bush administration to stop a deal permitting a United Arab Emirates company to take over six major U.S. seaports, upping the ante on a fight that several congressmen, governors and mayors are waging with the White House.

WASHINGTON (Feb. 21) - Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist called Tuesday for the Bush administration to stop a deal permitting a United Arab Emirates company to take over six major U.S. seaports, upping the ante on a fight that several congressmen, governors and mayors are waging with the White House.

"The decision to finalize this deal should be put on hold until the administration conducts a more extensive review of this matter," said Frist. "If the administration cannot delay this process, I plan on introducing legislation to ensure that the deal is placed on hold until this decision gets a more thorough review."

In the uneasy climate after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration decision to allow the transaction is threatening to develop a major political headache for the White House.

Frist, R-Tenn., spoke as other lawmakers, including Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said they would offer emergency legislation next week to block the deal ahead of a planned March 2 takeover.

Frist's move comes a day after two Republican governors, New York's George Pataki and Maryland's Robert Ehrlich, voiced doubts about the acquisition of a British company that has been running six U.S. ports by Dubai Ports World, a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates.

The British company, Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., runs major commercial operations at ports in Baltimore, Miami, New Jersey, New Orleans, New York and Philadelphia.

Both governors indicated they may try to cancel lease arrangements at ports in their states because of the DP World takeover.

"Ensuring the security of New York's port operations is paramount and I am very concerned with the purchase of Peninsular & Oriental Steam by Dubai Ports World," Pataki said in a statement. "I have directed the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to explore all legal options that may be available to them."

Ehrlich, concerned about security at the Port of Baltimore, said Monday he was "very troubled" that Maryland officials got no advance notice before the Bush administration approved the Arab company's takeover of the operations at the six ports.

"We needed to know before this was a done deal, given the state of where we are concerning security," Ehrlich told reporters in the State House rotunda in Annapolis.

The arrangement brought protests from both political parties in Congress and a lawsuit in Florida from a company affected by the takeover.

Public fears that the nation's ports are not properly protected, combined with the news of an Arab country's takeover of six major ports, proved a combustible mix.

Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina said on Fox News Sunday that the administration approval was "unbelievably tone deaf politically." GOP Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia said on ABC's "This Week," "It's a tough one to explain, but we're in a global economy. ... I think we need to take a very close look at it."

Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey said Monday that he and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., will introduce legislation prohibiting the sale of port operations to foreign governments.

At least one Senate oversight hearing was planned for later this month.

Critics have noted that some of the 9/11 hijackers used the UAE as an operational and financial base. In addition, they contend the UAE was an important transfer point for shipments of smuggled nuclear components sent to Iran, North Korea and Libya by a Pakistani scientist.

The Bush administration got support Monday from former President Carter, a Democrat and frequent critic of the administration.

"My presumption is, and my belief is, that the president and his secretary of state and the Defense Department and others have adequately cleared the Dubai government organization to manage these ports," Carter told CNN. "I don't think there's any particular threat to our security."

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff made the rounds on the talk shows Sunday, asserting that the administration made certain the company agreed to certain conditions to ensure national security. H said details of those agreements were secret.

During a stop Monday in Birmingham, Ala., Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the administration had a "very extensive process" for reviewing such transactions that "takes into account matters of national security, takes into account concerns about port security."

Associated Press writers Will Lester in Washington, Matthew Verrinder in Newark, N.J., and Tom Stuckey in Annapolis, Md., contributed to this story.

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Bush called reporters at about 2.30 ET aboard Air Force One to issue a very strong defense of port deal... MORE... He said he would veto any legislation to hold up deal and warned the United States was sending 'mixed signals' by going after a company from the Middle East when nothing was said when a British company was in charge... Lawmakers, he said, must 'step up and explain why a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard.' Bush was very forceful when he delivered the statement... 'I don't view it as a political fight,' Bush said.... MORE... MORE...

From: www.drudgereport.com

6:45 PM EST

Bush Shrugs Off Objections to Port Deal

By TED BRIDIS
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Brushing aside objections from Republicans and Democrats alike, President Bush endorsed the takeover of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports by a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates. He pledged to veto any bill Congress might approve to block the agreement.

The president on Tuesday defended his administration's earlier approval of the sale of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. to Dubai Ports World, despite concerns in Congress it could increase the possibility of terrorism at American ports.

The pending sale - expected to be finalized in early March - puts Dubai Ports in charge of major shipping operations in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia. "If there was any chance that this transaction would jeopardize the security of the United States, it would not go forward," Bush said.

"It sends a terrible signal to friends around the world that it's OK for a company from one country to manage the port, but not a country that plays by the rules and has got a good track record from another part of the world," Bush said.

To assuage concerns, the administration disclosed some assurances it had negotiated with Dubai Ports. It required mandatory participation in U.S. security programs to stop smuggling and detect illegal shipments of nuclear materials; roughly 33 other port companies participate in these voluntarily. The Coast Guard also said Tuesday it was nearly finished inspecting Dubai Ports' facilities in the United States.

A senior Homeland Security official, Stewart Baker, said this was the first-ever sale involving U.S. port operations to a state-owned government. "In that sense this is a new layer of controls," he said. Baker added that U.S. intelligence agencies were consulted "very early on to actually look at vulnerabilities and threats."

Bush sought to quiet a political storm that has united Republican governors and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee with liberal Democrats, including New York's two Democratic senators, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer.

Frist said Tuesday, before Bush's comments, that he would introduce legislation to put the sale on hold if the White House did not delay the takeover. He said the deal raised "serious questions regarding the safety and security of our homeland
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Senator Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., at news conference: Schumer says he's introducing legislation to keep port management out of the hands of the United Arab Emirates. (partially overlaps previous cut.)

House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., asked the president for a moratorium on the sale until it could be studied further. "We must not allow the possibility of compromising our national security due to lack of review or oversight by the federal government," Hastert said.

Maryland's Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich, during a tour of Baltimore's port on Tuesday, called the deal an "overly secretive process at the federal level."

 

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Bush took the rare step of calling reporters to his conference room on Air Force One after returning from a speech in Colorado. He also stopped to talk before television cameras after he returned to the White House.

"I can understand why some in Congress have raised questions about whether or not our country will be less secure as a result of this transaction," the president said. "But they need to know that our government has looked at this issue and looked at it carefully."

A senior executive from Dubai Ports World pledged the company would agree to whatever security precautions the U.S. government demanded to salvage the deal. Chief operating officer Edward "Ted" H. Bilkey promised Dubai Ports "will fully cooperate in putting into place whatever is necessary to protect the terminals."

Bilkey traveled to Washington in an effort to defuse the growing controversy.

Bush said that protesting lawmakers should understand his approval of the deal was final.

"They ought to listen to what I have to say about this," the president said. "They'll look at the facts and understand the consequences of what they're going to do. But if they pass a law, I'll deal with it with a veto."

Bush, who has never vetoed a bill as president, said on the White House South Lawn: "This is a company that has played by the rules, has been cooperative with the United States, from a country that's an ally on the war on terror, and it would send a terrible signal to friends and allies not to let this transaction go through."

Lawmakers from both parties have noted that some of the Sept. 11 hijackers used the United Arab Emirates as an operational and financial base. In addition, critics contend the UAE was an important transfer point for shipments of smuggled nuclear components sent to Iran, North Korea and Libya by a Pakistani scientist.

They say a port operator complicit in smuggling or terrorism could manipulate manifests and other records to frustrate Homeland Security's already limited scrutiny of shipping containers and slip contraband past U.S. Customs inspectors.

Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., and Democrat Schumer said Tuesday they will introduce emergency legislation to suspend the ports deal. King, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said the government "cannot consider approving this contract until a much more thorough investigation takes place on this security matter."

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., said they would introduce a "joint resolution of disapproval" when they returned to Washington next week. Collins heads the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Harman is the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

Bush's veto threat didn't stop local efforts to block the deal. New Jersey's governor, Jon S. Corzine, said Tuesday the state will file lawsuits in federal and state courts opposing the agreement. Corzine, a Democrat, cited a "deep, deep feeling that this is the wrong direction for our nation to take."

A company at the Port of Miami, a subsidiary of Eller & Company Inc., sued last week to block the deal in a Florida state court. It said that under the sale, it will become an "involuntary partner" with Dubai's government and it may seek more than $10 million in damages.

Frist said Congress should have veto authority over such foreign sales, which are reviewed by a secretive U.S. panel that considers security risks of foreign companies buying or investing in American industry. The panel includes representatives from the departments of Treasury, Defense, Justice, Commerce, State and Homeland Security.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld described the United Arab Emirates as a close ally. "It's a country that's been involved in the global war on terror with us," Rumsfeld said. He added that the United States and the UAE "have very close military-to-miltary relations, as well as political and economic relations."

Separately, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said port security would not be threatened. "This is not a question about port security," Gonzales said. "This is a question about port operation."

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Associated Press writers Ben Feller, Will Lester, Terence Hunt, and Devlin Barrett in Washington, Matthew Verrinder in Newark, N.J., and Tom Stuckey in Annapolis, Md., contributed to this report.

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UPI !! --> UAE Terminal Takeover EXTENDS To -->>" 21 ! " PORTS !!!!!! United Press International - Security & Terrorism - UAE terminal takeover extends to 21 ports Address:http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060223-051657-4981r     United Press International News. Analysis. Insight. 2/24/2006 7:25:00 AM -0500 SECURITY & TERRORISM UAE TERMINAL TAKEOVER EXTENDS TO 21 PORTS By PAMELA HESS UPI Pentagon Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (UPI) --   A United Arab Emirates government-owned company is poised to take over port terminal operations in 21 American ports, far more than the six widely reported.             The Bush administration has approved the takeover of British-owned Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. to DP World, a deal set to go forward March 2 unless Congress intervenes. P&O is the parent company of P&O Ports North America, which leases terminals for the import and export and loading and unloading and security of cargo in 21 ports, 11 on the East Coast, ranging from Portland, Maine to Miami, Florida, and 10 on the Gulf Coast, from Gulfport, Miss., to Corpus Christi, Texas, according to the company's Web site.           President George W. Bush on Tuesday threatened to veto any legislation designed to stall the handover. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. said after the briefing she expects swift, bi-partisan approval for a bill to require a national security review before it is allowed to go forward.           At issue is a 1992 amendment to a law that requires a 45-day review if the foreign takeover of a U.S. company "could affect national security." Many members of Congress see that review as mandatory in this case. But Bush administration officials said Thursday that review is only triggered if a Cabinet official expresses a national security concern during an interagency review of a proposed takeover.           "We have a difference of opinion on the interpretation of your amendment," said Treasury Department Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, comprised of officials from 12 government departments and agencies, including the National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security, approved the deal unanimously on January 17.             "The structure of the deal led us to believe there were no national security concerns," said Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Michael P. Jackson.           The same day, the White House appointed a DP World executive, David C. Sanborn, to be the administrator for the Maritime Administration of the Department of Transportation. Sanborn had been serving as director of operations for Europe and Latin America at DP World.           Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, R- Va., said he will request from both the U.S. attorney general and the Senate committee's legal counsel a finding on the administration's interpretation of the 1992 amendment. Adding to the controversy is the fact Congress was not notified of the deal. Kimmitt said Congress is periodically updated on completed CFIUS decisions, but is proscribed from initiating contact with Congress about pending deals. It may respond to congressional inquiries on those cases only.              Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley stated in a letter to Bush on Feb. 21 that he specifically requested to be kept abreast of foreign investments that may have national security implications. He made the request in the wake of a controversial Chinese proposal to purchase an oil company last year.            "Obviously, my request fell on deaf ears.  I am disappointed that I was neither briefed nor informed of this sale prior to its approval. Instead, I read about it in the media," he wrote.           According to Kimmitt, the deal was reported on in major newspapers as early as last October. But it did not get critical attention in the press until the Associated Press broke the story Feb. 11 and the Center for Security Policy, a right-leaning organization, wrote about it Feb. 13. CSP posited the sale as the Treasury Department putting commerce interests above national security. Kimmitt said because the 2005 Chinese proposal had caused such an uproar before it ever got to CFIUS, the lack of reaction to the Dubai deal when it was reported on last fall suggested it would not be controversial enough to require special notification of Congress. Central to the debate is the fact that the United Arab Emirates, while a key ally of the United States in the Middle East, has had troubling ties to terrorist networks, according to the Sept. 11 Commission report. It was one of the few countries in the world that recognized the al-Qaida-friendly Taliban government in Afghanistan; al-Qaida funneled millions of dollars through the U.A.E. financial sector; and A.Q. Khan, the notorious Pakistani nuclear technology smuggler, used warehouses near the Dubai port as a key transit point for many of his shipments. Since the terrorist attacks, it has cut ties with the Taliban, frozen just over $1 million in alleged terrorist funding, and given the United States key military basing and over-flight rights. At any given time, there are 77,000 U.S. service members on leave in the United Arab Emirates, according to the Pentagon. Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England warned that the uproar about the United Arab Emirates involvement in U.S. ports could risk alienating the very countries in the Middle East the United States is trying to court as allies in the war on terrorism. "It's very important we strengthen bonds ... especially with friends and allies in the Arab world. It's important that we treat friends and allies equally around the world without discrimination," he said. The security of port terminal operations is a key concern. More than 7 million cargo containers come through 361 American ports annually, half of the containers through New York-New Jersey, Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif. Only a small percentage are physically searched and just 37 percent currently screened for radiation, an indication of an attempt to smuggle in nuclear material that could be used for a "dirty bomb." After the September 11 terrorist attacks, the government began a new program that required documentation on all cargo 24 hours before it was loaded on a ship in a foreign port bound for the United States. A "risk analysis" is conducted on every shipment, including a review of the ship's history, the cargo's history and contents and other factors. Each ship must also provide the U.S. government 96 hours notice of its arrival in an American port, along with a crew manifest. None of the nine administration officials assembled for the briefing could immediately say how many of the more than 3,000 port terminals are currently under foreign control. Port facility operators have a major security responsibility, and one that could be exploited by terrorists if they infiltrate the company, said Joe Muldoon III. Muldoon is an attorney representing Eller & Co., a port facility operator in Florida partnered with M&O in Miami. Eller opposes the Dubai takeover for security reasons. "The Coast Guard oversees security, and they have the authority to inspect containers if they want and they can look at manifests, but they are really dependent on facility operators to carry out security issues," Muldoon said. The Marine Transportation Security Act of 2002 requires vessels and port facilities to conduct vulnerability assessments and develop security plans including passenger, vehicle and baggage screening procedures; security patrols; establishing restricted areas; personnel identification procedures; access control measures; and/or installation of surveillance equipment. Under the same law, port facility operators may have access to Coast Guard security incident response plans -- that is, they would know how the Coast Guard plans to counter and respond to terrorist attacks. "The concern is that the UAE may be our friend now ... but who's to say that couldn't change, or they couldn't be infiltrated. Iran was our big buddy," said Muldoon. In a January report, the Council on Foreign Relations pointed out the vulnerability of the shipping security system to terrorist exploitation. Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. customs agency requires shippers to follow supply chain security practices. Provided there are no apparent deviations from those practices or intelligence warnings, the shipment is judged low risk and is therefore unlikely to be inspected. CFR suggests a terrorist event is likely to be a one-time operation on a trusted carrier "precisely because they can count on these shipments entering the U.S. with negligible or no inspection." "All a terrorist organization needs to do is find a single weak link within a 'trusted' shipper's complex supply chain, such as a poorly paid truck driver taking a container from a remote factory to a port. They can then gain access to the container in one of the half-dozen ways well known to experienced smugglers," CFR wrote.  © Copyright 2006 United Press International, Inc. All Rights ReservedWant to email or reprint this story? Click here for options. Port Authority Sues to Block Arab Company By JEFFREY GOLD The Associated Press Friday, February 24, 2006; 8:00 PM TRENTON, N.J. -- Citing security concerns, the agency in charge of New York City-area ports sued Friday to try to block a firm owned by the United Arab Emirates from taking over operations here. The lawsuit by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey claims that Dubai Ports World was violating its lease by not getting consent for its pending acquisition of the current port operator, London-based Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. A cruise ship sits docked at the New York City Passenger Ship Terminal, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006, in New York, as seen from across the Hudson River in Weehawken, N. J. The facility is one of several affected by a controversial proposal to hand over shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports to Dubai Ports World, a company owned by the United Arab Emirates. President Bush is facing stiff opposition from both Republicans and Democrats over the proposed sale. The New York city-based and owned cruise terminal is the fourth-busiest cruise terminal in the United States. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) (Jason Decrow - AP) The lawsuit, filed in state Superior Court in Newark, asked the court to halt the purchase, which would involve takeover of operations at Port Newark's container terminal and five other U.S. ports. A hearing was set for March 3. The state of New Jersey filed a related federal lawsuit against the Bush administration on Thursday. The Port Authority also sent a letter Friday to P&O asserting that the British company has violated its lease, which the authority now considers to be terminated. A P&O spokesman in Washington did not immediately return a message seeking comment Friday. The actions came as Democrats and Republicans alike questioned federal approval of the deal. Dubai Ports World on Thursday offered to delay the takeover while the Bush administration tries to convince lawmakers that it poses no security risk. On Thursday, Port Authority Chairman Anthony Coscia said the U.S. Treasury Department had not responded to the bistate agency's request for details about how the federal government determined it was safe to allow Dubai Ports World to buy the British company. "We as owners of that facility should be made comfortable that whoever operates that facility is capable of it," Coscia said. Dubai Ports World has hired a team of lawyers including former Sen. Bob Dole as it tries to save the deal. Dole, husband of Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., said he won't lobby Congress and will limit his involvement to discussions with Bush administration officials and efforts to "help the American people understand the real facts." "I have not nor will I `lobby' members of Congress on this issue, not even at home," Dole said in a statement issued late Thursday, after the North Carolina Democratic Party called for Elizabeth Dole to recuse herself from debate about the deal. Sen. Elizabeth Dole is among those challenging the deal. Her spokeswoman Lindsay Taylor Mabry said she didn't know how long the senator had known of her husband's role in the deal. "Sen. Elizabeth Dole's decisions are made independent of Bob Dole," Mabry said. ___ On the Net: Dubai Ports World: http://www.dpa.co.ae Port Authority: http://www.panynj.gov Dubai Company to Transfer US Ports to American Company     By David D. Kirkpatrick and Carl Hulse     The New York Times     Thursday 09 March 2006     Washington - DP World, the United Arab Emirates state-owned company that had agreed to buy several port terminals in the United States, said today that it will transfer those properties to an American-owned company, bowing to a political groundswell against the acquisition.     The decision came just hours after a delegation of Republican leaders in Congress told President Bush in an Oval Office meeting that Congress would act within days to block the company's acquisition of the United States port terminals in the name of national security, lawmakers present said.     "The House spoke very clearly," Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the Republican leader, said in an interview after the meeting.     Announcing the company's decision on the Senate floor about 1 p.m., Senator John W. Warner, Republican of Virginia, read a statement from the company: "Because of the strong relationship between the United Arab Emirates and the United States and to preserve that relationship, DP World has decided to transfer fully the U.S. operations of P & O North America to a United States entity."     The announcement did not immediately mollify Democrats, though Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, a chief critic of the deal, called it a promising development. But he added that if the Dubai-owned company ultimately retained control over the port operations, "I don't think our goals would be accomplished and obviously we will need to study this agreement carefully."     Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, concurred. "We will have to wait and see what is really going to happen," Mr. Reid said.     On Wednesday evening, the House Appropriations Committee voted overwhelmingly to scuttle the deal giving DP World control of some major seaport operations without awaiting the outcome of a 45-day review of potential security risks.     Representative Jerry Lewis, the California Republican who is chairman of the panel, added an amendment blocking the transaction to an essential emergency spending measure for the war in Iraq and for Hurricane Katrina recovery.     The vote was 62 to 2, a signal of the deep opposition to the takeover on both sides of the aisle.     The committee's ranking Democrat, Representative David R. Obey of Wisconsin, said he regretted that President Bush had not done a better job of explaining the proposed transaction and had not been given enough time. But Mr. Obey said, "When I heard of the transaction, I thought it sounded nuts."     Mr. Lewis's effort was endorsed by Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois, so the vote was not exactly a surprise. But it was a stark example of Republicans breaking with their president, after years of working in tandem or quietly settling differences behind closed doors. Carlyle Group Explores Acquisition of Port Operations     By Ben Hammer     The Washington Business Journal     Friday 10 March 2006     Private equity firm The Carlyle Group established a team to acquire public-purpose facilities such as ports a day after a United Arab Emirates company said it would transfer newly acquired operations at American ports to a U.S. organization.     D.C.-based Carlyle Group announced an eight-person team would invest in public-purpose infrastructure projects such as ports, transportation and water facilities, airports, bridges and stadiums. The team will begin work March 13.     The new infrastructure team had been planned for six months, but the Carlyle Group decided Thursday to launch it.     DP World, a company owned by the United Arab Emirates, acquired a British company that manages operations at six U.S. ports, but the House Appropriations Committee voted 62-2 on March 8 to prevent it from taking control of the ports.     DP World will transfer the operations to a "U.S. entity," Sen. John Warner, R-Va., said Thursday.     The Carlyle Group, however, doesn't want to be that entity, says spokesman Chris Ullman. "We have zero interest in that deal, and we will continue to have no interest."     Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and others in Congress are considering legislation that would block any foreign company from operating ports and other key U.S. infrastructure. If that legislation is approved, it could give The Carlyle Group and other private equity firms opportunities to buy foreign-owned operations at a discount.     The new public infrastructure investment group is co-headed by Robert Dove, former executive vice president at Bechtel Enterprises, and Barry Gold, former managing director and co-head of the structured finance group at Citigroup/Salomon Smith Barney.     "We are at a crossroads of the right market, right private equity firm and right team with complementary skills and experience," Gold says in a statement. "As a U.S. firm with exceptional experience in government contracting, Carlyle is now well positioned to invest in U.S. and other infrastructure either alone or as part of a consortium."     Carlyle's infrastructure team will invest primarily in U.S. infrastructure in transactions ranging from $100 million to more than $1 billion. It will enter into public-private partnerships with federal, state and local governments by purchasing projects outright or through long-term concessions.   ------- WHO OWNS THE CARLYLE GROUP? http://www.thecarlylegroup.com/eng/company/l3-company737.html 2. Who owns The Carlyle Group? Carlyle is a private partnership, which means that it is owned by a group of individuals, most of whom are Managing Directors at Carlyle, and one institution, CalPERS, which owns 5.5 percent of Carlyle. CalPERS is the California Public Employees Retirement System, one of the largest institutional investors in the world. The companies and real estate Carlyle buys and the companies it invests venture capital in are owned by the funds that invested in the companies. 3. How is the firm structured? Carlyle, with more than 600 employees, is based in Washington, DC and has offices in 14 countries. Day to day management of the organization is conducted by its three Co-founders and Managing Directors, William E. Conway, Jr., Daniel A. D’Aniello and David M. Rubenstein. Carlyle’s Chairman is Louis V. Gerstner and it has 90+ Managing Directors and more than 330 investment professionals. One of the reasons Carlyle has a large staff is because many of the roles other private equity firms contract out are done in-house at Carlyle, including, fundraising, accounting oversight, deal sourcing and due diligence and various back office duties.     Bush Baker Carlucci Darman Major   Ramos US President 1988-1992 Former Director of the CIA  Secretary of State Bush Administration Secretary of Defense Reagan Administration White House Budget Advisor Bush / Clinton Administrations Former Prime Minister of UK Former President of the Phillipines Carlyle Senior Advisor Carlyle Senior Counselor Carlyle Chairman/CEO Carlyle Managing Director Carlyle Europe Chairman Carlyle Asia Advisory Board   Last year, George Bush Sr and John Major traveled to Riyadh to talk with senior Saudi businessmen. In September 2000, Carlyle hired speakers including Colin Powell and AOL Time Warner chair Steve Case to address an extravagant party at Washington's Monarch Hotel. Months later, Major joined James Baker for a function at the Lanesborough Hotel in London, to explain the Florida election controversy to the wealthy attendees. We can assume that Carlyle pays well. Neither Major's office nor Carlyle will confirm the details of his salary as European chairman - an appointment announced shortly before he left the House of Commons after the election - but we know, for the purposes of comparison, that he is paid £105,000 for 28 days' work a year for an unrelated non-executive directorship. Bush gives speeches for the company and is paid with stakes in the firm's investments, believed to be worth at least $80,000 per appearance. The benefits have attracted political stars from around the world: former Philippines president Fidel Ramos is an adviser, as is former Thai premier Anand Panyarachun - as well as former Bundesbank president Karl Otto Pohl, and Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the SEC, the US stock market regulator. FROM: http://www.angelfire.com/indie/pearly/htmls/bush-carlyle.html THE CARLYLE GROUP FROM GREATDREAMS.COM Carlyle Group owns Halliburton Halliburton This company truly has a guardian angel: former Halliburton CEO and now Vice President Dick Cheney who looks out for its interests from the White House. The result? $8 billion in contracts “rebuilding” Iraq in 2004. CEO: David J. Lesar Military contracts 2004: $8 billion Campaign contributions in 2004: $217,199 (Oil & gas related) The biggest windfall in the invasion of Iraq has most certainly gone to the oil services and logistics company Halliburton . The company, which was formerly run by Vice President Dick Cheney, had revenue of over $8 billion in contracts in Iraq in 2003 alone. And while Halliburton ’s dealings in Iraq have been dogged everywhere by scandal – including now a criminal investigation into overcharging by Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root for gas shipped into Iraq – Vice President Cheney manages to be doing quite well from the deal. He owns $433,000 unexercised Halliburton stock options worth more than $10 million dollars. But Halliburton ’s history of benefiting from government largesse goes back a ways. From 1962 to 1972 the Pentagon paid the company tens of millions of dollars to work in South Vietnam , where they built roads, landing strips, harbors, and military bases from the demilitarized zone to the Mekong Delta. The company was one of the main contractors hired to construct the Diego Garcia air base in the Indian Ocean , according to Pentagon military histories.   HALLIBURTON FROM GREATDREAMS.COM

US Treasury - Committee on Foreign Investments in the United ... CFIUS seeks to serve US investment policy through thorough reviews that protect ... The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS") was ... www.treas.gov/offices/ international-affairs/exon-florio/

THE BLACKENED WHITEHOUSE The Saudi Arabian and United Arab Emirates (UAE) documents likewise feature a map of each ... The White House ^ | 28 January 2003 | President George W. Bush ... www.greatdreams.com/political/blackened-whitehouse.htm - BOMBING OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER - 9-11-2001 - DAY 4 Meanwhile, one person was arrested Thursday in connection with the attacks ... Abu Dhabi Television in the United Arab Emirates reported that two men with ... www.greatdreams.com/trade_day4.htm BOMBING OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER - 9-11-2001 - DAY 5 With a scandal about to break against George W. Bush, he and his circle had an ... of birth used: June 28, 1976; last known address: United Arab Emirates. ... www.greatdreams.com/trade_day5.htm THE UNITED NATIONS FOOD PROGRAM 49 United Arab Emirates 50 Latvia 51 Bahamas 52 Cuba 53 Mexico ... THE FRENCH CONNECTION ... www.greatdreams.com/political/bechtel.htm - ... www.greatdreams.com/political/ united_nations_food_program.htm - BOMBING OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER - 9-11-2001 - PAGE 7 Marwan Al Shehri, 23, from the United Arab Emirates, had studied with ... WASHINGTON –– Authorities arrested a second man in connection with the twin ... www.greatdreams.com/trade_day7.htm - BOMBING OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER 9-11-2001 Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are the only other countries to recognize the Taliban as the ... In connection with the events in the United States, ... www.greatdreams.com/trade.htm - TERRORISM - WORLD TRADE CENTER - DAY 2 - 9-12-2001 While US President George W Bush has hinted he will take retaliatory action, ... seeking a connection to terrorism attacks in the United States. ... www.greatdreams.com/trade_day2.htm IRAN Iran was promised return of its frozen assets in the United States and the ... www.greatdreams.com/political/french-connection.htm - ... GEORGE W BUSH ... www.greatdreams.com/iran_database.htm TERRORISM - WORLD TRADE CENTER - 9-11-2001 - PAGE 11 Why do officials of the United Arab Emirates continue to insist that they questioned hijacker Ziad Samir Jarrah at US request in January 2001, ... www.greatdreams.com/trade_day11.htm - ASIA REVEALS ITS DARK SIDE Dragon oil, a company based in the United Arab Emirates, has the rights to the ... The news reported it this way: "President George W. Bush has declined to ... www.greatdreams.com/war/asia.htm TERRORISM - WORLD TRADE CENTER - 9-11-2001 - PAGE 10 Although pressure from within the United States for a retaliatory strike will grow, President George W. Bush currently enjoys high popularity ratings. ... www.greatdreams.com/trade_day10.htm TERRORISM - WORLD TRADE CENTER - 9-11-2001 - PAGE 3 According to German records, both men are from the United Arab Emirates. (Saudi Arabia) ... Subj: [RMNEWS2] FBI-CIA Connection To 1993 World Trade Bombing ... www.greatdreams.com/trade_day3.htm MURDER BY PLANE CRASH The latest front for the oil fraud, George W. Bush, likewise would most ... "sought in connection with the possible terrorist threats in the United States. ... www.greatdreams.com/planes/murder_by_plane_crash.htm WILL THE GASOLINE PRICE PROBLEM TAKE DOWN THE ECONOMY June 8 - saboteurs opened connections between two pipelines near the Bayji ... The United Arab Emirates said it would release an additional 400000 barrels ... www.greatdreams.com/gasoline-economy.htm The Explosion: 50 Years Later, Texas City Still Remembers US pilot killed in U-2 crash in United Arab Emirates: officials ... New connections are coming fast these days, like a flood of information. ... www.greatdreams.com/terror/texas_city.htm - RED LINE - BLUE LINE - THE DREAM AND THE REALITY USAMA BIN LADEN IS WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE AUGUST 7, 1998, BOMBINGS OF THE UNITED STATES EMBASSIES IN DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA AND NAIROBI, KENYA. ... www.greatdreams.com/redline.htm -

ASIA REVEALS ITS DARK SIDE This company now owns the entrance and exit ports to the Canal. US Representative Dana Rohrabacher has stated, "Li Kashing and his Hong Kong-based company ... www.greatdreams.com/war/asia.htm - Homeland Security ???? You Are a Suspect You Are a Suspect 11/14 ... Other gulf ports have been on heightened terrorist alert. G2 Bulletin sources say a mysterious armada of al-Qaida ships has been purchased to target, ... www.greatdreams.com/homeland-security.htm WILLIE FLOTILLA - THE DANGERS OF SHIPPING PLUTONIUM OVER THE OCEAN Citing a recent study exposing the vulnerability of America's ports to terrorism, Chapman said shipping extremely dangerous material though an unsecured ... www.greatdreams.com/willie-flotilla.htm DIASPORA and RACE RIOTS Despite union claims that the rally in Oakland and at other ports in the country sent a message to the PMA, officials at the organization said negotiations ... www.greatdreams.com/diaspora.htm - D-DAY - HISTORICAL OR FUTURE? An armada of 3000 landing craft, 2500 other ships, and 500 naval vessels -- escorts and bombardment ships--began to leave English ports. ... www.greatdreams.com/d-day.htm ANOTHER PEARL HARBOR IN OUR FUTURE? These forces would be introduced through friendly ports and airfields, if possible. If necessary, forcible-entry operations could be conducted using ... www.greatdreams.com/land_forces.htm - GREATDREAMS - EARTHCHANGES - NEWS OF TERRORISM It has 28 land ports of entry, including some of the nation's most remote. ``We are on a state of heightened alert,'' said Dean Hove, deputy district ... www.greatdreams.com/terrsm.htm - A WARNING OF TERRORISM - UPS TRUCKS Ports in south Florida, Los Angeles and New Jersey, say law enforcement experts, continue to be trouble spots. Increased losses from high-tech-chip theft ... www.greatdreams.com/UPS-terrorism-warning.htm CALIFORNIA JUNTA Well yeah, sure it is - around ports of the entry. But the other 1969 miles of border are wide open." Ramiro Meerano, immigrant rights activist: "I think ... www.greatdreams.com/political/california_junta.htm - WTO (WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION) SEATTLE PROTEST Longshore Union Shuts West Coast Ports To Protest WTO ... The San Francisco and Seattle ports will be closed from 8 am to 4 pm local time, union spokesman ... www.greatdreams.com/prep.htm THE NEW WORLD ORDER -WHAT IS IT? These vehicles are coming into our ports -- namely Port Beaumont, Texas--at a staggering rate. UN Vehicles Just Off The Port ... www.greatdreams.com/nwo.htm BECHTEL - THE CHENEY CONNECTION Ports Upon Bechtel's entry to Iraq in mid-May 2003, we found the port―consisting of the Old Port, New Port, and grain facility―in a rundown condition with ... www.greatdreams.com/political/bechtel.htm PROPHECY OF NEW YORK CITY NUCLEAR BOMB TERRORIST ATTACK "The ship comes into port on the eve of the 16th or 17th of the month. ... It looked like some sort of a nuclear explosion, I guess, a round, www.greatdreams.com/nynuke.htm TERRORISM IN NEW YORK CITY The explosion had taken that out. (Note: there is no subway system in Milwaukee, ... A half mile away at the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Friday, ... www.greatdreams.com/terrorism_in_new_york_city.htm Subj: RAYELAN:...***TWO powerful "FACTIONS"-- After the explosion I would take to the airwaves and condemn terrorists is Asian countries for bringing a nuclear bomb into the port of Los Angeles in a ... www.greatdreams.com/managed_news.htm - BOMBING OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER - 9-11-2001 - DAY 4 Peter Yerkes, a spokesman for the Port Authority, which runs the airports, ... He heard some sort of explosion and saw white smoke coming from the plane and ... www.greatdreams.com/trade_day4.htm THE KOREAN LEADER - ATTACK ON AMERICA? The first effect of a nuclear explosion in the air is an intense flash of ... of the superpower arsenals, and delivered by ship to the harbour of a port. ... www.greatdreams.com/korean.htm ON THE BEACH - IT'S JUST A MOVIE - RIGHT? In The Final War (1960) an accidental American atomic explosion over Korea ... Similarly, in Port of Hell (1955) a Los Angeles Harbour Inspector and his ... www.greatdreams.com/atomic.htm GEORGE W BUSH There was another explosion. And another. I didn't know which way to run. ... turned her over to a group of firefighters and Port Authority police officers. ... www.greatdreams.com/political/bush-not-done.htm Terror in the Skies The New York Port Authority closes Newark International Airport. ... He didn't see what caused the explosion, but on the chance that it was a plane, ... www.greatdreams.com/terror_in_the_skies.htm WAR WITH IRAN ("they are harmless to civilians because the explosion is underground") ... Recently anti-war protestors blockaded the port of Oakland, California when the ... www.greatdreams.com/political/stalemate.htm DREAMS OF BOMBS ... brought into the US "two weeks ago", or in mid-July, through Port Arthur in Texas. ... The picture was a HUGE explosion ... all black and red fire . ... www.greatdreams.com/bombs.htm DREAMS OF THE GREAT EARTHCHANGES - MAIN INDEX