Dubai was an "Atomic Bazaar"

Although the Dubai ports takeover was universally reported to be "closed," it is very much alive. Dubai Ports World is firmly in control, after nothing more than a statement that the companies are separate, and that a buyer is being sought over the next six months. Perhaps they will indeed be forced to sell, or maybe the issue will blow over with the news cycle.

In any case, the nightmare risk scenario is that the Dubai-owned firm would enable nuclear proliferation by permitting insider information about port security to leak. Supporters have termed this possibility farfetched, but here is evidence that this has already occurred at ports in Dubai.

By Duncan Hunter, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee:

As recently as 2003, customs officials in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), of which the government of Dubai is a member, allowed 66 high-speed electrical switches, which can be used for detonating nuclear weapons, to go to a Pakistani businessman with ties to that country's military ? despite U.S. protests. Further evidence shows Dubai spurned U.S. requests to inspect containers holding the switches. Among other troubling examples, Pakistani physicist and nuclear proliferator A.Q. Khan shipped black-market materials through Dubai, prompting one Middle East expert to call it an "atomic bazaar."

It is astounding that a congressman with a senior security role should be so naive as to credit Muslim Pakistan's nuclear proliferation to a single individual. Khan operated a "nuclear Wal-Mart" for 30 years and was pardoned by the president who called him "my hero." US and international officials said it was ludicrous to believe that the government was not fully involved in the affair. One US official compared Khan's destabilizing impact on the 21st century to Hitler's and Stalin's on the 20th.

What do Pakistan and Dubai (UAE) have in common? They both support bin Laden:

CIA Chief: Bin Laden is Being Protected by Pakistan

UAE Ranks Highest in Support for bin Laden

Did UAE Save Bin Laden?
The 9/11 commission strongly suggests that Richard Clarke made a call to a high-ranking UAE official which was transmitted to Afghanistan that saved bin Laden from a U.S. missile strike

The solution is for Dubai to turn over immediately the US subsidiary to a trustee charged with selling the company and certifying that the computer systems (particularly the file marked "Homeland Security briefing: details of US port operations") are inaccessible until the sale. All proceeds and interim profits would be turned over to the emir of Dubai.

If Dubai's claims are honest, the trustee would have minimal impact. The US subsidiary claims to have "no connection" with its owner and that an investment banking firm is already looking for a buyer.

Unfortunately, that file may already be in the emir's hands, as well as the hands of those whose "top priority is destroying Israel and the U.S."

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