Tuesday, February 28, 2006
And the Coast Guard did not like the deal either
When the stink over the Dubai ports deal started to erupt, we were told not to worry, the Coast Guard not the company would handle security. Now we find, in this WaPo story, that the CG stated flatly that they could not "rule out" bad things happening.
The U.S. Coast Guard, in charge of reviewing security at ports operated by a Dubai maritime company, warned the Bush administration it could not rule out that the company's assets could be used for terrorist operations, according to a document released yesterday by a Senate committee....But what does the CG know anyway? They weren't going to make any money on the deal.
.....But in a Dec. 13 intelligence assessment of the company and its owners in the United Arab Emirates, the Coast Guard warned: "There are many intelligence gaps, concerning the potential for DPW or P&O assets to support terrorist operations, that preclude" the completion of a thorough threat assessment of the merger.
"The breadth of the intelligence gaps also infer potential unknown threats against a large number of potential vulnerabilities," says the document, released by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
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