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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: kumar who wrote (223635)3/12/2007 1:19:10 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
what did the US have to worry about with a foreign owned company having purchased equity ?

Maybe nothing in reality, but having an Arab company in charge of port security is a touchy subject since 9/11. May be ignorant and xenophobic, but it's understandable. What undesirables could come in with Haliburton, fundamentalist Baptists?
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