Giving the Business to Family Friends

The kind of people Dear Leader trusts just like family.

Cookie Christine finds at Think Progress that they're keeping your Homeland Safe for you, outsourcing the security contracts to a company owned by the United Arab Emirates. The $6.8 billion sale would mean that the state-controlled Dubai Ports World would control “the ports of New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia.”

Lucky you.

Think Progress finds some details (a .pdf document) about our contracted Port Protectors.

– The UAE was one of three countries in the world to recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.

– The UAE has been a key transfer point for illegal shipments of nuclear components to Iran, North Korea and Lybia.

– According to the FBI, money was transferred to the 9/11 hijackers through the UAE banking system.

– After 9/11, the Treasury Department reported that the UAE was not cooperating in efforts to track down Osama Bin Laden’s bank accounts.

This is what I call keeping it all in the family.