Reply #22: A.Q. Kahn....Bob Dole --- Michael Ledeen....denounced the deal

[sattahipdeep]

You don't need to be a member of the Council on Foreign Relations to grasp
that a country that embraced the Taliban, was a financial hub for the 9/11
attackers, and whose own ports were used by notorious Pakistani scientist
A.Q. Kahn to smuggle nuclear components....

Among the GOP officeholders joining King and Myrick at the port deal barricades
are Bill Frist, Dennis Hastert, George Pataki, Michael Bloomberg, Susan
Collins, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and Tom Reynolds, chairman of the National
Republican Campaign Committee -- who clearly knows a losing issue when he sees
one. Conservative commentators John Kasich, Cal Thomas, Hugh Hewitt, and
conservative national security analysts Michael Ledeen and Frank Gaffney have
also denounced the deal.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20060222/cm_huffpost/016187;_ylt=A86.I2ROX_1DimABvxf9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--

"This didn't rise to the presidential level," McClellan said.

Under the transaction set to take effect next week, Dubai Ports World, a United Arab
Emirates-owned company, would manage terminals at the six ports now run by a
British company that Dubai Ports World bought for $6.8 billion.

A Department of Homeland Security staffer said mid-level officials who assess
proposed deals generally do not want to waste the president's time by asking him to
review corporate transactions, said a participant in the meetings.

Meanwhile, Dubai Ports World retained the services of former Sen. Bob Dole, the
GOP's presidential candidate in 1996, to help calm opposition on Capitol Hill

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/02/23/MNG7UHDAU01.DTL