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The Dubai Deal You Don't Know About
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Time Magazine
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1171773,00....
Dubai Ports World, the firm at the center of the controversy, announced today that it would give up its bid to manage U.S. ports, agreeing to transfer the contracts to a U.S. entity." Yet while one Dubai company may be giving up on U.S. ports, another one shows no signs of...giving up a contract with the Navy to provide shore services for vessels in the Middle East. The firm, Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS)...was sold to a Dubai government investment vehicle for $285 million. Why is a Dubai shipping services company doing business with the Pentagon when handing over U.S. port operations to the emirate would supposedly compromise national security? ISS will be responsible for providing all the logistics requirements of U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships in ports throughout the [Middle East] region. The release also notes that ISS may be asked to provide services for U.S. military training exercises and contingency operations inland. ISSs partner for those services? None other than KBR, the division of Halliburton -- Vice President Dick Cheneys old firm -- that has won billions of dollars in contracts for the Iraq war and reconstruction. Ironically, Halliburton's name has come up as a possible candidate to be the "U.S. entity" to take over the U.S. ports management from Dubai Ports World.
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